Nietzsche has this great line about not looking into the abyss lest it look back, and I can’t help but think we’ve done just that. It’s just not clear to me what’s on the other side of ...

Nietzsche was a lot of things — iconoclast, recluse, misanthrope — but he wasn’t a racist or a fascist. He would have shunned the white identity politics of the Nazis and the alt-right.

Nietzsche was at school when Darwin published his theory of evolution, dynamiting the foundations of 2,000 years of Christian belief and culture and setting off a tsunami of nihilism and pessimism.

Nietzsche calls for people to become the Ubermensch, his famous term. The person who always transcends the limits of what was in place before in their lives, what it meant to be human. So it’s ...

By the time Nietzsche jotted down his anti-emancipatory musings, Uncle Tom’s Cabin had run through no fewer than 50 editions in Germany and prompted countless reviews – almost without ...

In Hiking with Nietzsche, he tries to repeat this feat by chronicling his return — with his second wife and their toddler daughter — to the scene of his near-fatal teenage attempt to follow ...

Nor does Nietzsche embrace a free and independent human Jesus in the context of sheer godlessness. There is a concept of deity worth entertaining, the holy storm-God Jehovah, wreathed not in the ...

Nietzsche’s thought hovered at the edge of the abyss, and he eventually crossed into it. The story goes that on Jan. 3, 1889, he broke down in Turin, Italy, upon watching a cabman abuse a horse.

NIETZSCHE AND THE BURBS By Lars Iyer. A clique of misfit teenagers in suburban England sit on adulthood’s cusp, lamenting their middle-class lives and fretting for their futures.