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“Half-Man” or “Half-Doll”: George Egerton's Response to Friedrich Nietzsche

“…And the gospel she preaches also contains the decidedly un-Nietzschean advice to ''forget yourself, live as much as you can for others'' or to strive for ''absolute negation of self''. 111 If not an outright contradiction, there is at least a clear tension between this advice and the emphasis on personal strength and self-reliance, which is not resolved in the text.…”