Not least because he was so appallingly edited and misrepresented by his sister.
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This easy reminds me of all those attempts to get at the "real" bible or the "real" Qur'an. It's impossible.
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Exactly. If someone wants to take the Bible or the Quran or Nietzsche and bend it to their own nefarious agenda, this is easily achieved
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Except that Nietzsche despised anti-Semitism, and warned about both the world wars and the Holocaust, well in advance
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Nietzsche had a big falling out with Wagner over antisemitism. His ideas were grossly distorted by his sister.
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You can thank his sister for the gross distortions, motivated by a desire for fame and encouraged by her anti-semitic husband
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Same as Cosima Wagner with her husband Richard wagner, the composer
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As you know, N famously turned against Wagner. Of course, in my remark from long ago, I don't mean that bad rdings of N aren't also responsible for completely turning his views upside down. N knew he would therefore be dangerous (for many who would not understand him).
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People misreading Nietzsche is one of those things that tells you all you need to know about that person/group.pic.twitter.com/laZPRRoXzn
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Problems started with Hegel, Fichte, Rousseau. Subsequent totalitarianisms are heirs of German idealism and romanticism.
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Nietzsche was a complicated guy.
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"[O]ne has neither heard nor even seen me ... Hear me! I am such and such a person. Above all, do not mistake me for someone else" EH P. §1
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As an aside, this is quite a companionable volume, conveying vividly that place/locale strongly influenced Nietzsche https://www.amazon.com/Good-European-Nietzsches-Sites-Image/dp/0226452794 …
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His work was misinterpreted by Nazism. They did the same to Beethoven and Frederick The Great. It was cultural - historical manipulation.
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How many Nietzsche fans I've met who've only read the front and back cover...
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Nietzsche wrote in 1880's that PanGermanism was passion overriding reason and would lead to no good. So he predicted rise and fall of Nazis.
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And influenced (inspired?) just about every single philosopher and public intellectual in the last 150 or so years
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