Tag: Ethics

Chapter for The Philosophy of Comedy, edited by Simon Kirchin, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement Volume 96, October 2024

The worst readers, Nietzsche claimed, are like “plundering troops” who loot the few ideas they can use and trash the rest. But what if the texts in question are a hodgepodge of good sense and nonsense? Isn’t selective pillage the best, not worst, way to read them?