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Are there any (continental) philosophers you would recommend over Nietzsche? I keep trying to move past him and Stirner, but have not managed so far.
by fruffy 5y ago
Are there any (continental) philosophers you would recommend over Nietzsche? I keep trying to move past him and Stirner, but have not managed so far.
- andi999 5y agoIf you like depressed mood then have a look at Schopenhauer?
- krylon 5y agoPersonally, I like Albert Camus very much. Like Nietzsche, he has a bad reputation for being moody and depressing, but the way I see it, he is really liberating and optimistic. A true humanist.
- HKH2 5y agoWhere does either of them have that reputation?
- m_a_g 5y agoSøren Kierkegaard could be a good candidate.
- pasabagi 5y agoMaybe Adorno's Minima Moralia might be nice? It's well written, in the sense Nietzsche is well written. Can also recommend Walter Benjamin. In terms of interpreters of Nietzsche, it's considerably more difficult, but Deleuze wrote a really good book on Nietzsche that's worth reading.
- goodpoint 5y agoSchopenhauer!
- HKH2 5y agoI think Dostoyevsky and Camus are more accessible.
- Errancer 5y agoDeleuze's books on history of philosophy are interesting and approachable. Although they are more about his own philosophy over people he write about they're still very valuable. Deleuze gets bad reputation for his other writings as they are difficult to read but that's not the case with books on history. He also have books on Nietzsche so that might be a nice starting point. Other continental philosophers that you could try are Heidegger, Foucault or Bataille. Everything depends on what you're looking for, but if you're coming from Nietzsche and Stirner they might be interesting for you. Edit: As someone else mentioned, Walter Benjamin is also very interesting!
- waingake 5y agoTry Simone de Beauvoir's the ethics of ambiguity. It's deals with many of the concerns Neitzsche raises in the area of ethics and moralality and provides some convincing arguments in a short accessible book.