The Portable Nietzsche

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1. keiferskiJul 2020
   Unfortunately I don't maintain a list (it's on my to-do list), but sure! Here are some good books I've read/am reading lately.

   - Nietzsche's Philosophy of Religion by Julian Young

   - The Portable Nietzsche by Kaufmann

   - A Secular Age by Charles Taylor

   - The Art of the Islamic Garden by Emma Clark

   - Notes on Culture by T. S. Eliot

   - In Praise of Shadows by Tanizaki

   - The Qur'an: Oxford World Classics

   - On Bohemia by Graña

   - The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

   - The Individual and His Property by Stirner

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2. 0klDec 2019
   When I studied Nietzsche it was more or less “Read Zarathustra, then read all the ‘Viking Portable Nietzsche’ then read all of the ‘Basic Writings of Nietzche’” all translates by Hollingdale or, preferably, Kauffman.

   Among the jewels you’ll find in such a reading are things like the seed of Nietzsche’s thought being placed, imo, in The Birth of Tragedy, with the line:

   > It is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified

   Other Nietzsche related recommendations: Pre-Nietzsche: Plato, Schopenhauer Post-Nietzsche: Camus - maybe?

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3. LiquixMar 2018
   Two counterpoints:

   A) Lennon discovered and got very deep into LSD in 1966, mere months before Lucy in the Sky was written. He had a powerful ego death experience [1].

   B) Admitting to the public that one of their hit songs was about a controversial drug was an obvious PR no-no.

   I guess there's no way to know for certain either way, though.

   [1] "When McCartney and Lennon visited the newly opened Indica bookshop, Lennon had been looking for a copy of The Portable Nietzsche but found a copy of The Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner, adapted from the translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Walter Evans-Wentz, which was introduced to Leary by Aldous Huxley. Lennon bought the book, went home and followed the instructions exactly as stated in the book. It discussed an “ego death” experienced under the influence of LSD and other psychedelic drugs, supposedly essentially similar to the dying process, and requiring similar guidance."

   https://books.google.com/books?id=FQSLCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA240

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