Sue Prideaux

Nietzsche’s thinking seems destined to be mangled and misunderstood

Two Italian editors, determined to rescue the philosopher from Nazi associations, find their concern with philological truth derided by French postmodernists

Friedrich Nietzsche, by Edvard Munch. [Alamy] 
issue 04 May 2024
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