![]() 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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