That Nietzsche’s philosophy could shrink the distance between German and American culture was the last thing on many of his American readers’ minds. Though they were reading Nietzsche in the United States, they never thought his philosophy would find refuge here, nor did they desire it. They simply wanted more of Nietzsche, more of the German pathos of distance, more of his philosophy with which to shield themselves from the crude, anti-intellectual mob mentality of American life.
