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 ...

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 ...

An illustration depicting the Mahad Satyagraha led by BR Ambedkar on March 20, 1927, to allow untouchables to use water in a ...

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 ...

Much electronic ink has been spilled of late regarding the sources of the current radical movement sweeping the Western world. In countless popular articles and blogs, Karl Marx is often credited as ...

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 ...