THERE must be thousands at Americans who have heard enough about Nietzsche to know that it is their duty to abhor him utterly as an atheist and dreadful pessimist. A few hundred possibly have come ...
Decades after Friedrich Nietzsche died, elements of his philosophy were infamously appropriated to support the fascism of Nazi Germany. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) He published Thus Spoke ...
Friedrich Nietzsche drew no distinction between Socrates and Plato in his diagnosis of the origin of philosophy and metaphysics. My argument will lean heavily on the scholarship of Gregory Vlastos to ...
The relationship between Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche is a rare case of a great composer influencing a major philosopher. As a young man, Nietzsche admired Wagner's music and was a regular ...