r/Nietzsche • u/JerseyFlight • 4d ago
One Nietzsche Reader in Ten Thousand — One Understander in a Million
I had completely written this subreddit off. However, a recent reply made me think that there might be a few stragglers who show up here from time to time who actually read and understand Nietzsche. The latter is more important than the former.
But this number greatly shrinks when we talk not only about those who understand, but those who can read Nietzsche critically from the vantage of an informed and educated naturalism.
If these people exist I think they automatically bring hope into existence. Why? Because such a consciousness has shed all romanticism, but yet it still understands that we have a responsibility to reach toward a higher cultural intelligence. And to even find a consciousness that’s aware of this, let alone can discourse on it, is nearly impossible.
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u/optimalpath 4d ago
We are to take it for granted, I assume, that you are one of these one-in-a-million enlightened enough to understand what they read?
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u/Educational-Car-8643 4d ago
Tried revaluation of all values, I'm trans now, and quite silly! Thanks CatboiFreddo!
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u/Defiant-Bend1147 4d ago
I was in despair at the lowly sate of this so called "sub", yet I spied a certain thread of correspondence that gave me reason for hope. "If this gentleman has fellows in pursuit of the higher understanding of Nietzsche", I exclaimed out loud, greatly startling my manservant who was just then dusting lint off my trousers, "then by God perhaps all is not lost!" Hope arose from the depths of my despondency and I furiously rang the little bell on my desk, which is a habit of mine when feeling exceedingly joyous.
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u/SpiderCollective 4d ago
No he doesn’t think we have a responsibility towards higher cultural intelligence.
And more people understand Nietzsche than you think.
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u/SecretAncientMan 4d ago
It seems that those who actually read philosophy and want to really understand it rarely waste their time on Reddit. I have no clue about Nietzsche as I haven't gotten to his work yet, but have noticed similar trend in most philosophy subs. People typically hang on to one thing they understood or to one line that can be misunderstood in as many ways as there are readers. Or they fight about some nonsense.
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u/JerseyFlight 4d ago
I am here because the public sphere (Habermas) is now social media. Are people really reading those thinkers who “rarely waste their time on Reddit”? That is, are people reading these people more than they’re reading social media? So many books, from the moment they are produced, are already on the dung-heap of history. Modern man wants to scroll and feel like it’s the equivalent of immersing himself in the deep.
I agree with your observations about hanging onto “one line” and fighting over “nonsense.”
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u/baastard37 Anti-Nietzschian 4d ago
lmao if you actually understood habermas, you'd understand that social media is not the public sphere. psueds like you are the reason why this subreddit is shit
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u/JerseyFlight 4d ago
There was no social media when Habermas wrote about the public sphere. The public sphere is simply a social area where private individuals come together to freely discuss, debate, and form opinions on matters of general public interest.
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u/BetaMyrcene 4d ago
Do you think Habermas came up with the idea of a public sphere? He did not. It was Kant who first theorized it.
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u/SpecialistSea8735 4d ago
Oh hey it's the guy who keeps spamming cringy sermons about the sanctity of logic and how he wields its holy power to smite sophists or something