Robert Holub, Ohio eminent scholar and professor and chair of the department of Germanic languages and literatures, studies 19th and 20th century intellectual, cultural, and literary history, especially Friedrich Nietzsche, Heinrich Heine, German realism, and literary and aesthetic theory. He discusses the historical setting of Nietzsche and how this impacts the ways we understand his writing. For more of his discussion with David Staley, listen to this week's Voices of Excellence