What Nietzsche Really Said by Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins

[Philosophy Now]

Patrick Scott, a new Nietzsche enthusiast, looks at… you’ve guessed it!

https://philosophynow.org/issues/29/What_Nietzsche_Really_Said_by_Robert_Solomon_and_Kathleen_Higgins

[Gary Childress]

Patrick Scott, a new Nietzsche enthusiast, looks at… you’ve guessed it!

https://philosophynow.org/issues/29/Wha ... en_Higgins

The head of the philosophy department at George Mason University (where I studied) was a Heidegger scholar and one of his associate professors specialized in Nietzsche. I took courses under both of them that touched on Nietzsche.

I never heard much praise about Robert Solomon from them. They highly recommended David B. Allison's works on Nietzsche instead for their undergrads. I sort of got the impression that Solomon seems a bit more vulgar in his interpretation of Nietzsche. Allison seems more attuned to the nuances in Nietzsche's writings and is more sympathetic to him as a human being. Allison neither idolizes nor demonizes Nietzsche but presents him in all his human-all-too-human condition. I've read both Solomon's and Allison's books and I recall Solomon seems to get more swept away by the usual stereotypes of ubermensches, and his famous phrase about "that which doesn't kill me..." like Nietzsche is larger than life. Nah. I think Nietzsche had his flaws like everyone else, but like many other philosophers, he had some profound things to say too, and started some profound conversations that still remain unfinished to this day.