[MD] Nietzsche

[MarshaV]

At 11:55 PM 11/29/2007, you wrote:

>marsha said:
>First, being enthralled with my iPod, I was looking for mp3 versions 
>of Nietzsche's books and found this wonderful website: 
>http://librivox.org/newcatalog/.  Wow!   Librivox offers mp3 books 
>that are in the public domain (free).  I've already downloaded 
>Nietzsche's 'Twilight of the Idols', 'Beyond Good and Evil' and 
>James's 'Essays of Radical Empiricism'.  Wonderful!  Wonderful!  Wonderful!!!
>Back to Nietzsche, I've just finished listening to 'Twilight of the 
>Idols'.  Why do I have so great a love for Nietzsche?  Because he is 
>not a storm, but a Category 5 Hurricane.
>
>dmb says:
>Yes, Librivox is great and the price can't be beat. Beyond Good and 
>Evil was assigned reading for one of my classes. So I put it on my 
>iPod. That way, I can do my homework and yard work at the same time. 
>I got particularly good scores on that assignment and the yard is 
>ready for winter. That's pretty wonderful - in a mundane, domestic 
>sort of way at least.
>
>I heard some Rorty by way of a podcast recently. He said that most 
>Germans think pragmatism is just what the Americans could get out of 
>Nietzsche. In Rorty's opinion, however, Dewey and James did what 
>Nietzsche did only they did it better, with more coherence. I hope 
>that's true.


Hi David,

Try Twilight of the Idols.  It's not that long.  The beginning is a 
little tough, but then he wields the hammer like the most skilled and 
happy carpenter.

Marsha