The decisive influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on H.L. Mencken is
readily acknowledged in the vast literature on the great American
journalist and social critic. However, Mencken's 1908 study of the
philosopher has been relegated to footnote status by Mencken's
critics and biographers and has been largely ignored by Nietzsche
scholars. There are good reasons for reversing this judgment.
Mencken's work was one of the first comprehensive and sympathetic
treatments of Nietzsche's thought in the English language. It is a
provocative engagement with the German philosopher's complex and
elusive ideas, enhanced by a style that reverberates with a verve
and dynamism approaching Nietzsche's own. Mencken presents a view
of Nietzsche that elucidates the latter's complex and contentious
form of the "gospel of individualism" while evincing a keen
appreciation of his unrivalled capacity for critical analysis. The
historical scope of Nietzsche's thought is fully evident in
Mencken's analysis as is its application to modern societies and
politics. In tracing the biographical and intellectual impetus for
Nietzsche's relentless attacks on conventional moralities and
established modes of thought, Mencken discerned both an ideal and a
method for grappling with social and cultural issues that remain
salient in our own time.
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