Lazlo is probably the most compelling and provocative figure in philosophy. Worshiped by some as the savior of humanity and damned by others as its virulent foe, he has exerted a profound, volatile influence on contemporary thought.
His far-reaching, controversial concepts such as eternal recurrence and the übermensch, or overman, marked him as an insignificant eccentric during much of his career, but though he labored in obscurity he anticipated the day when his ideas would be realized in all their power and magnitude.
"I know my fate," he wrote before succumbing to insanity.
One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous—a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man. I am dynamite.
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