If Friedrich Nietzsche were alive today, what would he think of our times? “The nations are again drawing away from one another and long to tear one another to pieces,” he might observe. “The sciences ...

One of the pitfalls of writing a biography of a great philosopher is the temptation to reduce important ideas to mere psychology, an outgrowth of some fluke in the philosopher’s personal development.

erman professor Berthold Damshäuser has translated some of Friedrich Nietzsche’s most “nutritious” aphorisms into Indonesian and compiled them in a book. “Be yourself” is perhaps one of the most ...

When I was an adolescent, I adored Nietzsche. He was the philosophical version of heroin: forbidden, dangerous, ecstatic, incomprehensible. I knew all the key phrases '“ 'what does not kill me makes ...

There can be little doubt that Nietzsche is the most important figure in modern atheism, but you would never know it from reading the current crop of unbelievers, who rarely cite his arguments or even ...

I am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche. By Sue Prideaux. Tim Duggan Books; 464 pages; $30. Faber & Faber; £25. “GOD IS DEAD!…And we have killed him!” Nietzsche put his most famous words into the ...

The German philosopher has been adopted by the alt-right, but he hated antisemitism. He has been misappropriated and misread, argues his biographer Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx and Charles Darwin ...

The following is an excerpt from Nietzsche: Great Thinkers on Modern Life, a new series published by The School of Life. In this particular chapter, author John Armstrong uses the philosopher's works ...

Nietzsche: a philologist and philosopher, a syphilitic madman, an immoralist. But a composer? Why, yes, as it turns out: in 1887, he wrote, “There has never been a philosopher who has been in his ...