‘At the beginning of August he decided on yet another new dietary experiment. Though not invaded by tourists to the extent of Maloja, the dining room at Sils's Alpenrose still had over a hundred people dining at the table d'hôte, among them many children. Nietzsche decided, on account of both the noise and the ‘dangerous’ nature of the food, that he was ‘too tender an animal to take his fodder with the masses’. ‘He decided to eat lunch half an hour before the rush and, abando

Welcome to the second in our series on characters from popular culture who may or may not constitute examples of the Nietzschean Übermensch. This time we look at the deerstalker-sporting detective extraordinaire, Sherlock Holmes. A creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the original Sherlock first greeted the world in 1887, in a short story featured in The Strand magazine. Coincidentally, this was the same year that Nietzsche published Genealogy of Morals, which many believe to