and had contempt for those who claimed to create ideas out of thin air - see his comments on British Empiricists
Do you remember where those comments are? Never heard of them.
While I, as I've said, I think no one can really embrace all of Nietzsche
Indeed. He seems more of a critic than a creator, still he had many original ideas, maybe because he didn't feel the need to create a coherent system, that would have forced him to discard some.
he denounced all those types that would love to evoke his name - the precursors of the NAZIs, anarchists and all philosophies glorifying "the individual" and so-forth
Were they sincerely individualists? First image that comes to mind when mentioning nazis is a bunch of uniformed people marching in perfect formation.
Regarding Nietzsche and the Empiricists, Reddit refreshed my memory of readings from times past:
"They are no philosophical race, these Englishmen: Bacon signifies an attack on the philosophical spirit; Hobbes, Hume, and Locke a debasement and lowering of the value of the concept of “philosophy” for more than a century. It was against Hume that Kant arose, and rose; it was Locke of whom Schelling said, understandably, “je méprise Locke” [I despise Locke]; in their fight against the English-mechanistic doltification of the world, Hegel and Schopenhauer were of one mind (with Goethe)—these two hostile brother geniuses in philosophy who strove apart toward opposite poles of the German spirit and in the process wronged each other as only brothers wrong each other."
He argues against empiricism in the genealogy of morals, beyond good and evil, and some of what he wrote on history.
He does so because they fail to understand that language is something historical that is fought over and changes over time. Thus his aphorism that 'only that which has no history can be defined.'
Do you remember where those comments are? Never heard of them.
While I, as I've said, I think no one can really embrace all of Nietzsche
Indeed. He seems more of a critic than a creator, still he had many original ideas, maybe because he didn't feel the need to create a coherent system, that would have forced him to discard some.
he denounced all those types that would love to evoke his name - the precursors of the NAZIs, anarchists and all philosophies glorifying "the individual" and so-forth
Were they sincerely individualists? First image that comes to mind when mentioning nazis is a bunch of uniformed people marching in perfect formation.