_Journal of Nietzsche Studies_ 45 (2):103-117. 2014 When Alexander Nehamas’s book Nietzsche: Life as Literature appeared in 1985, the landscape of Nietzsche studies seemed much more sparsely populated than it is today, and much harder to reach from anywhere else in philosophy.1 Nehamas’s book stood out as a bold and original attempt to give a new angle on how to interpret Nietzsche so that he emerged as an important philosopher, but in a way that could not ignore how extraordinary it was to read him. In this aim it succeeded admirably. Here is a quote: “Exclusive attention to the ‘mere’ content of Nietzsche’s writing has produced the caricatures of the Übermensch, the master morality, and the eternal recurrence, of which the secondary literature about him is full...(direct link)