Supposing (w 1932 PoD) Hitler and the Nazis never come to power in Germany. Does this impact the legacy of Nietzche and other philosophers that were (perhaps more fairly) associated with their regime OTL in any significant way? If so, how is Western Philosophy affected? And what are the run off effects of this change in particular (like in political philosophy, pop culture, etc)?
 
As someone who has studied him in detail, by that POD you still have his Nazi sister Elisabeth screwing around with his later works or at the very least Will to Power, although you would have to be willfully ignorant to not see that Nietzsche started to dislike Wagner and the idea of nationalism period. Yet reputation-wise I don't know what could be done, even there no nazi overtones applied you still have a series of concepts that can be misconstrued such as Nietzsche being a moral perfectionist by Rawls, although perhaps not taken to such a degree with the Overman.

Political thought-wise if there is no association with Nazism, the perhaps people could look to Nietzsche as possibly being anarcho-libertarian or libertarian. At the very least I'm getting those from Thus Spoke Zarathustra and trying to see what political thought would fit someone who didn't care for a hell of a lot of things including Monarchy,Democracy,Communism and Nationalism.
 
As someone who has studied him in detail, by that POD you still have his Nazi sister Elisabeth screwing around with his later works or at the very least Will to Power, although you would have to be willfully ignorant to not see that Nietzsche started to dislike Wagner and the idea of nationalism period.
That's true. Do Nietzche scholars tend to distrust that book, since it was his sister who actually put it together?
... you still have a series of concepts that can be misconstrued such as Nietzsche being a moral perfectionist by Rawls, although perhaps not taken to such a degree with the Overman.
That reading was based on "Schopenhauer as Educator", wasn't it? AIUI, that's early Nietzche, before he developed the "Nietzchean" philosophy (post Human, All Too Human) we know him for today.
Political thought-wise if there is no association with Nazism, the perhaps people could look to Nietzsche as possibly being anarcho-libertarian or libertarian. At the very least I'm getting those from Thus Spoke Zarathustra and trying to see what political thought would fit someone who didn't care for a hell of a lot of things including Monarchy, Democracy, Communism and Nationalism.
Reading him currently, I'm not sure how compatible he is with Free Market supremacism; if anything, critics of capitalism (as a greater social system) would find inspiration in criticism of "the herd".
 
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