The end of How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold reads like a cautionary tale about what Dwight Macdonald once called “fact-fetishism,” a holdover from the nineteenth century’s rationalism. Fittingly, then, it is Nietzsche who emerges as the most astute critic of all attempts to present his work “objectively”: “In opposition to Positivism,” he wrote in his notebooks, “which halts at phenomena and says ‘There are only facts and nothing more,’ I would say: No, facts are precisely what is lacking; all that exists consists of interpretations.”
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It is Nietzsche himself who emerges as the most astute critic of all attempts to present his work “objectively."
