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"The problem of the value of truth came before us or was it we who came before the problem? Who of us is Oedipus here? Who is the Sphinx? It is rendezvous, it seems, of questions and question marks" Expeditions to Kafka, Stanley Corngold, Page 252

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u/Essa_Zaben — 9 days ago
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You can't tell the difference between Nietzsche's and Wilde's philosophy, they stand for the same thing, but personality wise they are polar opposites, weird...

u/Essa_Zaben — 9 days ago
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The story after the Fall is the exact opposite: our inner realm will always be at friction, at odds, and hard-to-synchronize with the outer world. I seriously think it reached the epitome of its detachment between the "soul" and the "self" with Nietzsche's the Wanderer and his Shadow.

u/Essa_Zaben — 10 days ago
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Kafka: Existence (Dasein) means "Ihn-gehören"—"belonging to another"? I don't seem to understand neither Nietzsche nor Kafka here, should we literalize imagination, or to radically metaphorize appearances? ~Expeditions to Kafka, Stanely Corngold, Page 187✍️

u/Essa_Zaben — 10 days ago
▲ 19 r/Nietzsche

When Nietzsche comes dangerously close to Islamic teleological metaphysics

Expeditions to Kafka, Stanely Corngold, Page 172

u/Essa_Zaben — 11 days ago
▲ 3 r/Existentialism

Nietzsche: “Where the tree of knowledge stands, there is always Paradise”: thus speak the oldest and the youngest serpents. Meanwhile Kafka said: "We are sinful because we ate from the tree of knowledge, but not from the tree of life."

Why does Nietzsche conflate knowledge with the ecstasy of being while he, as we all knew, read Goethe's Faust, and he realizes that the mounting of knowledge for its own sake has limited fulfilling returns.

I think Kafka hits closer to home here because we lost the innocence and vulnerability of pleasure, of the constant super-ego injunction in the activities we "throw" ourselves the moment we ate from the tree of knowledge... I feel like we lost the truer sense of life the moment we got struck by the realisation of the impending danger of survival and by the "overflow" evolving of consciousness...

Nietzsche quotation: Beyond Good and Evil, §152

Kafka quotation: Expeditions to Kafka, as discussed in Stanley Corngold, Page 143

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u/Essa_Zaben — 12 days ago
▲ 10 r/Existentialism

Another episode of Kafka vs Nietzsche: the nightmarish, animate-diabolical, dreamscape, thing-in-itself multiplicity of Kafka's vs the Walserian-Nietzschean there-is-too-much-we see-we-don't-need-to-see-anything-out-of-the-ordinary reality of appearance

Expeditions to Kafka by Stanely Corngold, Page 122

u/Essa_Zaben — 14 days ago
▲ 9 r/Nietzsche

You're not the only one who enjoys the beauty of nature in decay, civilizations in ruins, and empires disintegrating, Dr. Nietzsche, you dear kindred and sensitive soul to us rebellious ones...

u/Essa_Zaben — 15 days ago
▲ 2 r/davidfosterwallace

"With time, we all get the face we deserve." DFW, Im not sure whether I heard it in This Is Water or Laughing With Kafka...

u/Essa_Zaben — 15 days ago
▲ 1 r/Robert_Walser

Early in my life it was too late... I never had the chance to be prepared... I woke up and it took me a long time to exist...

u/Essa_Zaben — 15 days ago