Kaufmann’s Nietzsche harmonized with the Nietzsche of the emergent anticommunist Right, who shared concerns about the danger of modern man’s conformism. No better do we see this than in the conservative critic and poet Peter Viereck’s The Unadjusted Man (1956), which argued that “Nietzsche will always remain relevant as the first great writer to proclaim unadjustedness as the form heroism takes in a mechanized mass-society.”
