Are you the monster you want to be?

[vulcanlogician]

I haven't read him myself, being allergic to reading and all, but I hear that he is a difficult philosopher to categorize or say definite things about.  He is a very literate philosopher, from all I'm told, so I think it would likely be a mistake to judge him without having read him.

Jor, I recommend Twilight of the Idols. It is a very brief book (well under 100 pages)... you could knock it out in a day or two. He wrote it rather late in his career. He intended it to be an introduction to his philosophy, and (it being one of his later works) his ideas are stated more clearly there than elsewhere (he was working out some kinks in his earlier stuff). If you end up purchasing Twilight of the Idols, I'd go for the english translation by Duncan Large*. If you want a more immersive introduction to him, I'd go for Beyond Good and Evil or Thus Spoke Zarathustra (you must get Walter Kaufmann translations for both of these).

The Portable Nietzsche is available free online and has an abridged Zarathustra in it. (Kaufmann translation, too)




*Best. Porn. Name. Ever.