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Nietzsche’s Three Types of Writers

Nietzsche’s Three Types of Writers

The Scholar, the Pioneer and the Revolutionary

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Jun 16, 2021
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In §27 of his masterpiece Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche delivers one of his trademark throwaway insights that keeps on giving. He discriminates between three types of writers based on their tempo of thinking and writing. It gives us a lens through which to view his peculiar style of philosophis…

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