Over Man: On Nietzsche and our crisis of masculinity

"Like many others, I first read Friedrich Nietzsche as a teenage boy. In the fall of 2001, at the age of fifteen, I learned that I was to have brain surgery, and I needed reading material for the recovery period. In preparation for a month or so spent largely in bed, I browsed the Barnes & Noble philosophy shelves and selected Plato’s Symposium and Republic and Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. These texts were my first foray into philosophy. Post-surgery, when I could do little but read, Plato and Nietzsche competed for my affection. Nietzsche won. Plenty of authors had been presented to me as radical or revolutionary voices, but only with Nietzsche did the act of reading itself feel thrillingly subversive. ..."

The Point 

On Friedrich Nietzsche’s Early Intellectual, Emotional, and Spiritual Development 

amazon: The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche by Daniel Blue

2016 April: Anarchism and Friedrich Nietzsche, 2021 February: Walter Kaufmann’s Classic Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre (1960) 2023 May: The Portable Nietzsche