Brian Leiter on Nietzsche Myths

http://hw.libsyn.com/p/d/1/6/d1677410823f120c/Brian_Leiter_on_Nietzsche_Myths.mp3?sid=129b7dddae919e454b56ae87ff8225b6&l_sid=18828&l_eid=&l_mid=1730455&expiration=1325996403&hwt=448a049cde00b3988c6495bf3b99a64b

• The significance of the Ubermensch is overhyped. 
• The Kaiser distributed copies of TSZ to every german soldier 
• Never in Ecce Homo does the will to power become mentioned; it is not actually central metaphysically to his philosophy, but he is merely interested in it psychologically. 
• Heidegger's story of Nietzsche's philosophy is fiction 
• Nietzsche is not actually influential to the postmodernists, ironic that Nietzsche is a philologist with regard to the "texts have no meaning" tenet of Derrida et al. 
• Though truth and lie in the extra-moral sense contained some postmodernist themes it was never published, which is significant 
• Nietzsche is the one major philosopher who regularly discourages people from reading his works.