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Sunday, 16 April 2006

"Kaufmann's Nietzsche was a dehitoricised and depoliticised interpretaion which put a closure on a key aspect of Nietzsche's philosophy: his political thinking".
[Nietzsche as a Political Thinker, K. Ansell-Pearson, 1994]

That this Kaufmannite distortion dating from the 1950s is still current is only a testament to laziness on the part of those who still promote it;

"Nietzsche is a thinker preoccupied with the fate of politics in the modern world ...
Nietzsche is a 'political' thinker FIRST AND FOREMOST".
[ib.,]

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