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Steven Gambardella
Oct 10, 2024
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Extermination of Evil (detail), late Heian period, 12th century Japan. (Public domain. Souce: Wikimedia Commons)

If Michel de Montaigne is often described as the “world’s first blogger”, it could be said that Nietzsche was the first social media troll.

His later books, such as the Joyous Science, Beyond Good and Evil, and the Twilight of the Idols, are st…

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