Richard Spencer, leading light of America’s alt-right, said in an interview last year that he was “red-pilled” by reading the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The reference is to “The Matrix”; in the ...

Friedrich Nietzsche, a 19th-century German philosopher, offered a profound perspective on family love. He described it as the ...

If you’ve read the sullen German philosopher, you might not believe that Nietzsche would have wanted you to be happy. But author Nate Anderson has done what few of us who only know the phrase “God is ...

The Philosophical Corner is a monthly column dedicated to the exposure and discussion of philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche, born in mid-17th-century Germany, was a vain genius. From his numerous books ...

In 1883, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote these words: “Have you not heard of that Madman who lit a lantern ...

The Big Ideas series has for several months now explored the meaning of a number of familiar intellectual phrases, among them Marshall McLuhan's "the medium is the message", Hannah Arendt's "the ...

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of supreme strength, of a life of maximum vigor, which has also been called the ideal of aesthetic greatness. That life is in truth the ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/jnietstud.50.2.0233 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jnietstud.50.2.0233 Copy URL Paul Katsafanas, Agency and the Foundations of ...

It takes a strong philosopher to assume control of a preposition and propel it into a foreign language. That is what Friedrich Nietzsche did with the word über. In German, it can mean “over,” “beyond, ...