>>508899493Nietzsche was a preacher's son (ironically) and the feeling one gets from all his work is that he's trying to find something to fill the cross-shaped hole he expected to open in German (and Western) culture in the not-so-distant future. This is especially clear in Thus Spake Zarathustra, which is structured like a holy text. Stirner was part of his baseline for
>This is why we can't rely on Christ anymorebut unlike Stirner, Nietzsche apparently felt that something should be put in that place. His writing is more extensive because he's trying to come up with a newer, shinier spook.