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From what was formally posited as the result of a syphilis infection, but recently determined as having been more likely brain cancer, Friedrich Nietzsche spent the last ten years of his life insane. Days before his death, according to one account, he embraced a horse in the streets of Turin because it had been flogged by its owner. He spent the next several days in a state of ecstasy, writing letters to his friends and signing them “Dionysus” or “The Crucified”. The writing of these final letters bear resemblance to the ecstatic writing of religious mystics, their content containing what was determined as having little relevancy to his life’s existential works.

Many regard Nietzche to represent the very antithesis of religion, and in fact to be a philosopher that greatly harmed the religious project for modern times. Others (most in the academy), escpecially writers in deconstruction, and nihilistic traditions regard Nietzche to have offered something positive to the advance of human liberation.

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