A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Monday, June 18, 2018

"SPEAK ONLY OF WHAT ONE HAS OVERCOME"!

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human II and Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Human, All Too Human II (Spring 1878--Fall 1879 (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Volume 4), translated from the German, with an Afterword, by Gary Handwerk (Stanford: CA: Stanford U. Press, 2013) ("One should speak only where one is not permitted to keep silent; and speak only of what one has overcome--everything else os chapter, 'literature,' lack of breeding. My writings speak only of my overcoming: 'I' am in them along with everything that was inimical to me, ego ipsissimus, in fact, if a prouder expression is allowed, ego ipsissimum. One can guess: I already have a great deal--beneath me . . ." Id. at 3.).