>His entire corpus basically deals with how to escape nihilism You must admit there is some sort of grand comedy in this: Nietzsche's one 'novel', "Thus Spoke

>His entire corpus basically deals with how to escape nihilism You must admit there is some sort of grand comedy in this: Nietzsche's one 'novel', "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" entire plot line is about a man who tries to warn society of the evils of nihilism and instead of being scared-off by it, all the people he warns fall in love with the idea (ie. willing trade their dangerous freedom to gain safety). Its a deeply ironic that the current pedestrian understanding of him is that he advocated "atheism and nihilism". You almost couldn't make it up.