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Title: Nothing is Easy with Nietzsche!
Review: This book contains a series of aphorisms ranging from a couple of lines to a couple of pages. As such, it is easy to pick and choose things that interest you. The problem is that Nietzsche wrote the aphorisms in a deliberate order, so looking at one passage in isolation is an express route to misunderstanding. This is especially true with respect to the sections that discuss Women and Jews. I found that I had the best success in understanding the book when I ignored the footnotes (they usually refer to German translation issues that are lost on non-German speakers) and simply plowed through several sections at a time. I think this work really sheds some light on the issues facing the European Union today. Nietzsche had an interesting perspective on the differences among Europeans and his observations are quite relevant to the struggle to unify the continent.
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