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Post by Eva Yojimbo on May 18, 2020 22:43:30 GMT
For readability I don't think it gets much clearer than Bertrand Russell, but he didn't have Nietzsche's literary sensibility either. And of course he absolutely despised Nietzsche and blamed him (and ultimately Rousseau) for Nazism. Russell considered any philosopher with a shred of romanticism dangerous. As I understand it, Nietzsche's alleged proto-Naziism was mostly due to his sister's deceptive editing in which she intentionally suppressed statements about how Nietzsche was firmly anti-nationalist and anti anti-semitism (weird double-negative there). Almost opposite of what happened with Wagner, where the Nazis embraced him even before his explicit anti-semitism came to light. Yeah, Russell seemed to hate idealism and what would become continental philosophy, and I sympathize with his position somewhat, though the poet/artist/aesthete in me has a secret crush on some of them. 
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