American Nietzsche: a History of an Icon and His Ideas, by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (University of Chicago, 464 pp., $30) Ratner-Rosenhagen begins with an examination of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ...
There are grounds for calling Friedrich Nietzsche the most misunderstood thinker in the history of Western philosophy. Not only were his ideas misinterpreted in a whole host of complex and often ...