Ep. 25: San Diego Bookstores, Part 3:  ETERNAL RETURN ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSHOP
Channel: Agoric Cafe
Date: 2021-01-28

Continuing the San Diego bookstore series (yet also transcending it), Roderick Long chats with Jeff Mezzocchi, proprietor of the Eternal Return Antiquarian Bookshop, devoted to rare editions of philosophical classics.  The conversation centers heavily on Nietzsche, but also ranges over the conflict between Cartesian caution and Spinozistic radicalism, Russian nihilism, Shakespeare in performance, dogmatic vs. skeptical readings of Plato, the perils of translation, teaching philosophy in the age of Zoom, the agonising tension between book collecting and bookselling, and the lakeside rock in Switzerland where Nietzsche and Jeff each experienced life-changing events.  

Like my earlier interview with Sean Christopher of LHOOQ Books, this interview should appeal to anyone with an interest in bookstores, philosophy, art, literature, etc., even if they have no specific interest in San Diego or its bookstore scene.

The full list of links is too long to fit in the description. So below are just the links to Jeff’s bookstore websites, the music and image credits for this video, and various specifically Nietzsche-related items that come up in our conversation.  For the links to other items mentioned in the discussion, see:  
https://praxeology.net/agoric-cafe-ep25-links.htm#otherlinks

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Eternal Return website:  https://www.eternalreturnbookshop.com/ 
 
Eternal Return facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/Eternal-Return-Antiquarian-Bookshop-818069184938603/ 
 
Photo credits (bookstore and Zarathustra rock images) for this interview: Jeff Mezzocchi 
 
Music credit for this interview:  Bizet’s Carmen (Keith Anthony Holden’s arrangement) – https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/habanera-30-sec-edit-refehah8dsk0wy33yo.html
(Couldn’t find a legally unencumbered music sample of either Nietzsche or Wagner, so, like Nietzsche himself, I half-voluntarily substituted Bizet) 
 
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Nietzsche links:

Walter Kaufmann, ed. & trans., THE PORTABLE NIETZSCHE (includes THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA, TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS, THE ANTICHRIST, and NIETZSCHE CONTRA WAGNER):   
https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Nietzsche-Library/dp/0140150625/?tag=praxeologynet-20 
 
Walter Kaufmann, ed. & trans., BASIC WRITINGS OF NIETZSCHE (includes THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY, BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL, GENEALOGY OF MORALS, THE CASE OF WAGNER, and ECCE HOMO):   
https://www.amazon.com/Writings-Nietzsche-Modern-Library-Classics/dp/0679783393/?tag=praxeologynet-20 
 
Nietzsche, UNTIMELY MEDITATIONS:  https://www.amazon.com/Nietzsche-Untimely-Meditations-Cambridge-Philosophy/dp/0521585848/?tag=praxeologynet-20 

Nietzsche, HUMAN, ALL-TOO-HUMAN:  https://www.amazon.com/Nietzsche-Spirits-Cambridge-History-Philosophy/dp/0521567041/?tag=praxeologynet-20 

Nietzsche, THE GAY SCIENCE:  https://www.amazon.com/Gay-Science-Prelude-Rhymes-Appendix/dp/0394719859/?tag=praxeologynet-20 

Nietzsche – Piano Music:  https://www.amazon.com/Friedrich-Nietsche-Complete-Piano-Music/dp/B00O8LWBUE/?tag=praxeologynet-20 

Nietzsche & Lou Salomé, “Hymn to Life”: 
- music:  https://youtu.be/hrFUeimGfcc 
- lyrics:  https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52190/52190-h/52190-h.htm#HYMN_TO_LIFE

The Nietzsche-Haus (Sils Maria):  https://nietzschehaus.ch/en/ 

William H. Schaberg, THE NIETZSCHE CANON:  A PUBLICATION HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY:  https://www.amazon.com/Nietzsche-Canon-Publication-History-Bibliography/dp/0226735753/?tag=praxeologynet-20 

Walter Kaufmann, ed., EXISTENTIALISM FROM DOSTOEVSKY TO SARTRE:  https://www.amazon.com/Existentialism-Dostoevsky-Sartre-Revised-Expanded/dp/0452009308/

Roderick Long’s “Audiovisual Companion” website for his “Nietzsche and Modern Literature” course:  https://praxeology.net/nietzsche-modlit2021.htm

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Links to other items mentioned in the discussion:
https://praxeology.net/agoric-cafe-ep25-links.htm#otherlinks