> His anti-Semitism eventually made him unemployable by academia. Did you mean atheism? Contrary to popular belief Nietzsche was not an antisemite nor would th

> His anti-Semitism eventually made him unemployable by academia. Did you mean atheism? Contrary to popular belief Nietzsche was not an antisemite nor would that have made someone unemployable in the 19th century. > He was never a true recluse, at least, not any more than anyone else of the time period. Given the inaccuracy of your previous statement I'd be interested in a source to support this. Below is from beginning of Ecce Homo (I selected a work at random -- it's really been a while since I've read any of his works, but I'm sure all the prefaces begin in a similar fashion -- save probably A Birth of Tragedy, since he was at that point still an academic and not actively hostile to the entire world for ignoring his writing). >> Seeing that shortly I must confront mankind with the heaviest demand ever put on it, it seems to me indispensable to say who I am...But the disparity between the greatness of my task and the smallness of my contemporaries has found expression in the fact that one has neither heard nor even seen me.