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Nietzsche: 150 Not Out

John Lippitt reports on the Friedrich Nietzsche Society Conference held in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the philosopher’s birth.

Most of us, I would think, could expect to be in a pretty sorry state by the age of 150. Nietzsche, however, is looking rather healthy. Having put behind him the twin inconveniences of going insane in his mid-forties and dying in his midfifties, he stands on the threshold of a new millennium as an enormous philosophical presence. Nietzschean influences can be traced on many major intellectual movements of our century, from existentialism to ‘death of God’ theology, and in the writings of contemporary thinkers as diverse as Jacques Derrida and Bernard Williams. But perhaps most significant of all, Nietzsche remains the only philosopher ever to have been featured on a Philosophy Now T-shirt.

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