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Bout That Life

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Nietzsche's Misogyny

Kaufman was raised as a Christian but found out of course that he was Jewish and I think was had to probably cope all his life for his love of Nietzsche. He spent a lot of time basically denying that there was a direct line between the philosophy and national socialism which like there is indisputably it's not the only thread, Kaufman says. The lady death protest protesting too much for something that he shouldn't have protested for should have just acknowledged and moved on. There was a lot of this kind of like progressive academic laundering of  Nietzsche that was probably a little bit too heavy-handed from what I understand based on reading the introduction the Wikipedia.

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