[vinceguidry]

I disagree that Nietzsche is one of the great people of history. I believe he's currently fashionable at the moment because of the West's love affair with narcissistic self-imagining, but the obsession will pass when we grow up and get over it.

Jane Austen made greater contributions to the Western dialectic but we tend to dismiss her as a 'mere' novelist. I submit that we'll have grown up as a society when we start to recognize that Austen, with her emotional maturity and capacity to give her characters real, palpable depth, was the far greater figure.