"Nietzsche's views have always seemed so strikingly different from the background of opinion against which he grew up that they have often been thought to owe their origin to a violent reaction against his upbringing. His entire philosophy even has been seen as no more than a calculated antithesis to the tradition in which he was raised."
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R. J. Hollingdale
Reginald John "R. J." Hollingdale (20 October 1930–28 September 2001) was a biographer and a translator of German philosophy and literature.
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