Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality and Other Writings

Reading this book, and reading Nietzsche as an author, was something requiered of me this last academic semester. I first did not understand how or where the classes were going to lead to. I did not understand why we we kept focussing on the same text and the same few pages of Nietzsche's Genealogo of Morality.
It was only when a different professor called Nietzsche's style as a “shotgun style” of philosophy. It was at this point that I started to understand the appeal of Nietzsche. Nietzsche, in my opinion, is not an author widely read and cited because of his overarching ideas and theories, but rather for his quick insights and digressions on side topics that highlight his opinions on more varied topics such as art, artists, philosophers, civilization. It is due to these small insights that I think of Nietzsche as the profressor and philosopher of close reading. As Nietzsche says “I admit that you need one thing above all in order to practise the requisite art of reading (...) rumination”.