Kyle’s Reviews > Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet > Status Update

I’ve been convinced that the majority of Nietzsche scholarship is suspect or just delusional.

I thought I new Nietzsche and read him carefully…turns out, not so much.

I've been convinced about the hermeneutics of innocence; I've read Nietzsche before but not with as much context as Losurdo provides. I'm finding this approach to a historical materialist interpretation helpful. Losurdo contextualizes Nietzsche's interventions with what his contemporaries were saying…

Now (at this point in Losurdo’s argument) where Nietzsche “Judeophobia” has been firmly established, even his association of Judaism with socialism and the French Revolution, Nietzsche’s later comments about women are not so out of place.

Terribly fascinating.

This book addresses all of Nietzsche’s writings, published and unpublished, letters and fragments.

I haven’t read Nietzsche’s early work in a while; it was completely lost on me that his first book was a polemic against socialism.