Nietzsche Is Not the Proto-postmodern Relativist Some Have Mistaken Him ForPosted By Patrick West on Jun 13, 2017 Nautilus When writing Ecce Homo in the late 1880s, Nietzsche sought to resurrect the Voltairean spirit in Europe, which he felt by his times had been washed away by pessimistic Romanticism. “Voltaire still comprehended umanità in the Renaissance,” Nietzsche..