Nietzsche looked with total disdain on academic philosophers. He calls them names like “dwarves” (as opposed to the true philosophers calling to each other acro

Nietzsche looked with total disdain on academic philosophers. He calls them names like “dwarves” (as opposed to the true philosophers calling to each other across centuries), and “scholarly oxen”, calls the field the “harmless chatter of children and academics” and suggest that if modern man had any courage it would be banned outright. Thousands of papers are still published every year on philosophical subjects Nietzsche believed he proved moot or a mere confusion of ideas. Very few modern academic philosophers are read better than Nietzsche in as in his lifetime. Few older ones were either: Nietzsche mentions the fate of Schoepenhaur and Spinoza. It’s a safe bet none alive now will be read in a hundred years. You mention Sam Harris in another comment and say that he’s “not taken seriously as a philosopher” by academic philosophers. I know nothing about him other than that he’s some pop culture commentator and therefore probably not worth attention, but the idea that someone like Nietzsche or anyone serious would care about what “academic philosophers” think of someone is absolutely ludicrous, not only on its face but when you consider they do take people like John Rawls seriously.