Nietzsche experienced music as authentic reality and colossal power. Music penetrated to the core of his being, and it meant everything to him.”1 That Rudiger Safranski opens his monumental biography ...

Source: Wikimedia commons, public domain. Possibly under the influence of Plato, who was himself influenced by Pythagoras, the Stoics held that the universe undergoes cycles, being periodically ...

Although he was sickened by the sight of blood, Nietzsche thought strength equaled good. In the next century the Nazis would co-opt that idea. Sausage is an efficient form of butchery. The Nazis were ...

How Nietzsche Came in from the Cold, by Philipp Felsch, trans. Daniel Bowles (Cambridge: Polity, 2024), $29.95 The most learned man I know suggests a comic figure. He is bald, short, and excitable. He ...

ROUGHLY A year ago, James Ceaser interpreted George XV. Bush’s post-September 11 foreign policy rhetoric as a direct attack on Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophic legacy–a legacy that ironically finds ...

Paging through “The Portable Nietzsche,” I went outside for a walk and within the space of a few moments discovered the popular philosopher’s unsung place within the interior and outer ecosystems of ...