Nietzsche's vision of the superman is of someone who's able to control and tame his passions and turn … - Pankaj Mishra

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Pankaj Mishra

Nietzsche's vision of the superman is of someone who's able to control and tame his passions and turn them into something richer than raw emotion and raw feeling. I think the best writing does that too. Untamed passion basically results in bad writing or bad polemics, which so many writers and public intellectuals are vulnerable to.

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