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Tweet 5/26/16

For several months now I’ve had a copy of Nietzsche’s The Will to Power (unabridged edition), but I haven’t succeeded in reading it through. Along with astonishing fragments, dozens of hodgepodge sentences, dreadfully mediocre. All that he writes about (or rather against) religion, Christianity, Buddhism, is external, badly informed, feeble; it’s as though I’m reading a commonplace atheist. The theoretical level is that of a Socialist of 1880. I am amazed at Nietzsche’s capacity to resist symbol, myth, mystery. The genius sees nothing in religion other than what his contemporaries could see—men whom he, with good reason, despised. — Mircea Eliade

Library booklist (H:cR)

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Shop Class as Soulcraft Matthew Crawford Thomist Realism Etienne Gilson  Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche  Source of the Self Charles Taylor  Philology James Turner  Religion Enters the Academy James Turner  Is There a Meaning in this Text? Kevin Vanhoozer