Rethink.

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 II. Music, Art and Pol­i­tics for Nancy Rug­geri 1. A fel­low stu­dent in grad­u­ate school remarked that after read­ing Niet­zsche, his love for the band Cur­sive fell away — the nihilism in their lyrics and their overly emo­tional tropes struck him as deca­dent and he couldn’t take them …

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 In the first part, we went through the Pref­ace of this work very care­fully in order to dis­cuss how Niet­zsche sets up pos­si­ble per­sonae for the sake of deliv­er­ing both an effec­tive teach­ing and a more dif­fi­cult teach­ing. Now I want to achieve two things: out­line the …

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 All cita­tions from the essay through­out the course of this series are from the Kauf­mann trans­la­tion in the “Basic Writ­ings of Niet­zsche” pub­lished by Mod­ern Library, copy­right 1992, p. 611–653. First part: “Pref­ace,” p. 611–612, with com­men­tary. Note: Words in ital­ics those of Nietzsche’s. Each para­graph from …