I am sitting here at Starbucks, the one that I now work at, taking my lunch break. I am gazing at the beverage I am drinking. The glace has made my beverage start to sweat. It could be the humidity in the air causing the sweat or just the fact that it is a hot summer day in Austin. This city has taught me so much while living here. I feel a stimulus in intellectual strength among the people I speak to in this city. I know I had it in Reno as well but this just hits differently.
After graduating from undergrad last December I have been trying to keep my mind active and always wanting to learn more. I needed to be challenged. While in undergrad I was introduced to Friedrich Nietzsche in a few classes. One was in a humanities course and the other in a philosophy course. I felt I barely scratched the surface. I need to learn more about Nietzsche. I want to discover Nietzsche in my own eyes. I want to understand him as if we were having an intellectual conversation at a bar. I am going on a grand intellectual journey using Nietzsche.
The poems are in German on the left page and translated to English on the right page. To keep up my horrible German skills I am reading the poem in German and then will analyze what I read in German. I will then re-read the poem in the English translation to see if my German understanding was correct. I will then analyze the poem in English and talk about what the poem means to me.
To throw a curve ball into the mix of this exercise I also challenged myself to use dictionary.com's "word of the day" each day I blog. I will italicize the word and hyper-link the definition. As you can see with the word glace above. When it comes to the 63 poems opening The Gay Science I will include them at the beginning of each blog. I believe that rules can change as well. Join me on this journey as I discover my Nietzsche starting with The Gay Science. Please join my conversation in the comments section. Critique my thought and analysis. Together we will understand Nietzsche.
After graduating from undergrad last December I have been trying to keep my mind active and always wanting to learn more. I needed to be challenged. While in undergrad I was introduced to Friedrich Nietzsche in a few classes. One was in a humanities course and the other in a philosophy course. I felt I barely scratched the surface. I need to learn more about Nietzsche. I want to discover Nietzsche in my own eyes. I want to understand him as if we were having an intellectual conversation at a bar. I am going on a grand intellectual journey using Nietzsche.
This journey isn't just about Nietzsche though. It is a lot more than that. I am currently studying for the GRE, which means expanding my vocabulary even more. I also want to practice more writing. I also plan to keep-up with my horrible German skills. Nietzsche is allowing me to do all of this, with a few catches of course.
I am currently reading Die Fröhliche Wissenschaft translated by Walter Kaufmann into The Gay Science. Kaufmann described this as Nietzsche's most personal book. The book opens with a prelude of prose.
The poems are in German on the left page and translated to English on the right page. To keep up my horrible German skills I am reading the poem in German and then will analyze what I read in German. I will then re-read the poem in the English translation to see if my German understanding was correct. I will then analyze the poem in English and talk about what the poem means to me.
To throw a curve ball into the mix of this exercise I also challenged myself to use dictionary.com's "word of the day" each day I blog. I will italicize the word and hyper-link the definition. As you can see with the word glace above. When it comes to the 63 poems opening The Gay Science I will include them at the beginning of each blog. I believe that rules can change as well. Join me on this journey as I discover my Nietzsche starting with The Gay Science. Please join my conversation in the comments section. Critique my thought and analysis. Together we will understand Nietzsche.
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