the phrase “teaching the Superman” stuck with me.2 I may have let it go, but it did not let me go, partly because I think it is closer to what Friedrich Nietzsche—who was so central to that book (although almost no one can really hear him today)—actually intended by his seminal term the Übermensch, partly because of my affection for American popular culture, where the Superman and superhumans of all sorts are everywhere, but mostly because it expresses exceptionally well my esoteric pedagogy, with which I opened both that earlier book and this one: the not so simple truth is that I was, and
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