![]() These include the courteous Nietzsche, the lonely Nietzsche and, ironically for the progenitor of the Superman, the ailing Nietzsche. However, the collection «Friedrich Nietzsche: The Last Letters, 1887-1889» (edited by Jean-Michel Rey) of Nietzsche’s correspondence sheds light on aspects of his life that are not exposed in his formal philosophical writings. Writing to his friend Reinhart von Seydlitz in February 1888, less than a year before he collapsed in a Turin street, tearfully throwing his hands round a maltreated carthorse, Friedrich Nietzsche went on to pronounce himself «the foremost philosopher of this era, and perhaps even a little more, something decisive and ominous standing between two millennia.» Such spasms of narcissistic exaltation will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the philosophical oeuvre of Nietzsche – the enigmatic German philosopher who saw his writings as the trigger of a tectonic shift in the premises of orthodox philosophy. ![]()
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