Nietzsche was dismissed as a fun but worthless philosopher

Evidence

On one occasion I had captured the floor with a rather cunning, if misguided, series of illustrations from Nietzsche. The response was a remark that Nietzsche was a worthless philosopher, although rather fun. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 288

Categorization

• CANDY: Light anecdote of academic one-upmanship over Nietzsche that could close a talk.
• XREF: connects to: Philosophical ambition and messiness outweigh polished but shallow philosophizing — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 912; Nazi propaganda translated Nietzsche’s will-to-power philosophy into practical mass manipulation — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 342

Broader Connections

• Philosophical ambition and messiness outweigh polished but shallow philosophizing #complicates (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 912
• Nazi propaganda translated Nietzsche’s will-to-power philosophy into practical mass manipulation #complicates (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 342