Nietzsche For Breakfast
by Jon Ferguson
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Pub Date 21 Mar 2024 | Archive Date 31 Aug 2024
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Description
Friedrich Nietzsche is perhaps the greatest thinker in the history of humanity and also the most misunderstood. Ferguson, who read Nietzsche for twenty years during his daily walks with his dogs in the forests and along the lakes in Switzerland, has condensed the philosopher’s essential thought into 100 pages.
On being asked about this book, he admitted, “I have picked up many books on Nietzsche and rarely liked what I read. I thought Nietzsche himself would usually have been very disappointed. In Nietzsche for Breakfast I have tried to be as fair as possible to the core of his vision of existence, human and otherwise…”
Early reviewers agree that Ferguson — novelist, painter, English teacher, newspaper columnist, and basketball coach who, like Nietzsche, fled the academic world in his twenties — has succeeded where so many others have failed.
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Advance Praise
from M C Gardener (US playwright):
Nietzsche For Breakfast is a bright jewel in the vast literature that considered Nietzsche’s thought in the dark century that succeeded it. Nietzsche famously said he was philosophy with a hammer, yet his work is among the most stylistically beautiful in German literature. In a volume just over one hundred pages Ferguson concisely examines a dozen books from the philosopher’s final decade.
Nietzsche is popularly known (or infamously so) for his critique of Christianity and his proclamation of the death of God which appears in several books and is dramatized in Zarathustra. But these attacks on religion are based on a more profound attack on the foundations of knowledge/epistemology—that man is even the thinker of his own thoughts:
"… when I analyze the event expressed in the sentence “I think”, I acquire a series of rash assertions… that I know what thinking is… Why do I believe in cause and effect? What gives me the right to speak of an “I” as a cause of thought."
The only solution to a world in which one cannot find truth is to live the truth of the world. This is Nietzsche’s Dionysus—living to love only this world and to dismiss the hope and falsity of any presumed other.
Despite its brevity, Ferguson’s evaluation is a seminal work of Nietzschean thought. He found Nietzsche’s deconstruction of European philosophy to fully warrant the philosopher’s claim:
"I am not a man, I am dynamite ..."
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9781916604216 |
| PRICE | £10.00 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 100 |
