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Since his death in 1900, Nietzsche has been claimed as the patron saint to nearly every kind of philosophy imaginable. Theists, atheists, transcendentalists, positivists, evolutionists, nihilists, existentialists, Nazis--all have carried the banner of Nietzsche into battle. Poets have revered him as a laughing god; the "good and the just" have condemned him as a devil's advocate or the Antichrist himself his name has even made the rounds in the "cocktail circuit", acting there as a password to popularity. Never in the history of philosophy has a single man been so diversely interpreted. |
