Books

[klammed]

I am trying to read Crime and Punishment. You will know if I succeed in a month's time. It's highly likely that I will fail, horribly, miserably. One suspects it's rather like Jane Austen on angst

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[philosophicfool]

i loved inheritance of loss

[klammed]

Yeah it's brilliant (:

[requiescere]

seeing as I've not read Inheritance of Loss, I shall have to point out that Crime and Punishment is not Jane Austen on Angst. It's like Nietzsche...on drugs.

[klammed]

and the difference is? :P (seeing as i've never actually read any of Nietzsche's works.... though wasn't Dostoevsky going against nihilism and all that.)

ok now someone explain how man and superman came about.

[requiescere]

The difference is that I find Dostoevsky worse. Or did. I haven't looked at him in a while. Haha yes he did go against nihilism, but it's so depressing it ended up being rather nihilistic. Personal opinion. It kills my brain to read him.

As far as I know, it came from Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Having never read it myself, the only thing I do know is that it's rather Platonic, in the sense that there is the upper elite (Ubermensch, or overman, superman being arguable as an incorrect translation) that are above the normal morals of society. I don't think there's an exact definition as to what he meant about the term, but I think Aryan race, Never the Sinner and Pureblood/Mudblood when I see Ubermensch. Or maybe even Lee Kuan Yew. Lol. Though I think Nietzsche saw him much the way Hitler was seen - young, creative, inspirational etc. And now I'm blabbing.

[klammed]

lol LKY. Hmm. Great. Now I've forgot what Shaw wrote about in that play.

and you need to reply my email :P