In recent years, scholars of 19th Western thought have considered themselves singularly fortunate to witness the unearthing, and careful curation, of previously overlooked correspondence by the German existential philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. From his previously known works, his private letters to Lou Andreas-Salomé, Richard Wagner, Paul Rée, and to the Swiss historian Jakob Burckhardt disclose the tremors of a mind at once incandescent and psychically fragile. When such documents surface, they are treated as relics, and rightfully so. They are catalogued and translated as treasured artifacts of the cerebrality. Conferences are convened. Germanists and philosophers alike lean reverently over the archival…