In this “melancholy and audacious” book, Nietzsche calls for an overturning of all habitual evaluations and habits of value, which he himself accomplished: “It is a monument to the severe discipline of my own self, by means of which I suddenly did away with all the ‘sacred raptures,’ ‘idealism,’ and ‘beautiful feeling’ that had been nurtured in me…”.

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