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Saving the West

authorship. Imagine how uninteresting all heterosexuals would become if all their works did nothing but declare their sexuality. Imagine how interesting the world would become if it sufficed merely to be a homosexual in order to write like Nietzsche. Writing like Nietzsche presumably means doing something grand. Kohler banks upon Nietzsche's assumed greatness at times, but does not seem really to have any appreciation for said greatness. As Kohler writes to describe the results of his own study, "How boring . . . would the 'truth' turn out to be" (p. 257). How boring indeed. The real test and justification of Kohler's approach would be in the richness the approach gives to the interpretation of Nietzsche's writing. But no such richness is forthcoming. Kohler is not a good reader of Nietzsche's writings. Referring to an instance wherein Nietzsche makes a direct appeal to the reader to read carefully, Kohler responds by mocking Nietzsche as "a man who lives in hotels" (p.164). The part ofthe German original of this work that was meant to justify its title, an interpretation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra on the basis of the reconstruction of Nietzsche's inner life, is omitted from the English edition. Kohler explains, "Anyone who has glimpsed the hidden depths of Nietzsche's personality will be in a position to grasp his philosophy without my help" (p. xii). The interpretation is omitted because there is no longer really anything to interpret. And what does this profound and final interpretation amount to? The superman is a statue that Nietzsche once saw in a sacristy, or it is the photograph of a naked man holding a spear. The eternal return is a nightmare Nietzsche had, or it is the feeling of deja vu that often precedes epileptic fits. The death of God is the death of Nietzsche's father, and so on. There is nothing provoking here, nothing challenging, and nothing worth knowing. Everything that makes human beings take Nietzsche seriously is missing from this book. There is nothing greatly true about Nietzsche in Joachim Kohler's work, because there is nothing of what is truly great about Nietzsche in Joachim Kohler's work. To quote Nietzsche, "Whoever wants not to see what is high in a man looks that much more sharply for what is low and foreground in him and thereby betrays himself" (Beyond Good and Evil, 275).