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Aristocratic Radicalism: Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction

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The Influence of Kaufman on Nietzsche's Reception in the West

Walter Kaufman was Nietzsche's primary translator and popularizer. He read him as an existential psychologist, critical of modernity but not a proto-fascist thinker. That interpretation is still the one that most people default to when it comes to thinking about Nietzsche.

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