Laudator Temporis Acti

Steven E. Aschheim, The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany: 1890-1990 (1992; rpt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), pp. 36-37:

Inasmuch as the early academic reception of Nietzsche was both hostile and slow,⁸⁷ there may have been an initial grain of truth to the observation that Nietzsche tended to attract more marginal and "bohemian" elements.⁸⁸ In 1900 Karl Kraus called such modish Nietzscheans "the super-apes of the coffee-house" (Überaffen des Kaffeehauses).⁸⁹

87. Walter Eckstein, "Friedrich Nietzsche in the Judgement of Posterity," Journal of the History of Ideas 6 (1945).

88. Hubert Treiber, "Nietzsches 'Kloster für freiere Geister': Nietzsche und Weber als Erzieher," in Die Religion von Oberschichten, ed. Peter Antes and Donate Pahnke (Marburg: Diagonal-Verlag, 1989).

89. Die Fackel, 2, 51 (August 1900), 21-22. Quoted in Vivetta Vivarelli, "Das Nietzsche-Bild in der Presse der deutschen Sozialdemokratie um die Jahrhundertwende," Nietzsche-Studien 13 (1984), 531.

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