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Brian Leiter on Nietzsche Myths

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The Ubermensch and the Will to Power

Nietzsche wasn't an anti-Semite in any sense of the word. He clearly did not hate Jews, qua Jews. His single most important complaint about Judaism was that it gave birth to Christianity. That would make him the strangest anti- Semite in the history of the West. In his very last work, Eke Homo, he nowhere assigns an important place to the theme of the will to power.

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