From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Thu Sep 25 2003 - 08:30:26 MDT
Ever heard of Nietzsche's little sister?
I found this in the London Review of Books
It wasn't him, it was her
Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n18/disk01_.html
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We more or less know about Nietzsche, but Elisabeth, the little sister and living embodiment of everything the mad philosopher disdained, who took control of her brother's thought, should not on any account be overlooked. Her life is a story of mediocrity triumphing over inspiration, meanness over excess, ressentiment over the Übermensch. Her transformation of her brother's work into a Nazi cookbook bears an uncanny resemblance to the rise of National Socialism itself in a chaotic Germany. After a lifetime of failing to keep up with her brother, she finally appropriated him, body and what was left of his mind
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