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Brian Leiter on Nietzsche Myths

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The Ubermensch and Nietzsche

Zarathustra became a very important book in the early reception of Nietzsche. The Kaiser in World War I issued copies of Zarathustra to all the German soldiers. By the early 1900s,  Nietzsche was the most important figure in German and European intellectual life.

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