Thinking the Nietzsche legacy today: a historian's perspective

The Nietzsche of the 1930s,1940s and early 1950s was the person who was held to be the thinker most crucially and intimately definitive of the Nazi order. The resuscitation of Nietzsch and his appropriate reconstruction into a prophet eminently suited to postwar times required that he emigrate from Germany. Walter Kaufman, Nietzsche's most influential expositor, and popularizer, provides him with the kind of liberal-humanist face consonant with American academic values of the time.