What Is the Concept of Reading?

Will: I think there were three texts that show that Nietzsche's understanding of our argument for how one ought to approach reading a text is different. He says it's not really about reading this book, it's more about struggling with it. And if you can get something out of a particular phrase or sentence after sitting with it, stewing with it for months, that's more valuable than someone who's read the entire book and can write a 1500 page commentary on it. The other being a Schopenhauer as educator, where we get reading as a kind of, gosh, what's the right word, apprenticeship in philosophical thought. And then finally, we get in dawn in

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