From Stefan Zweig to Friedrich Nietzsche, classic authors and philosophers are finding a new, young audience online. Discover ...

Friedrich Nietzsche’s book Thus Spake Zarathustra begins with the protagonist, none other than Zarathustra himself, waking up one morning and realizing that 10 years of meditation have given him a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Friedrich Nietzsche quotes have lasting power. Even though the scholar and philosopher only lived to the age of 44, he left an impressive written legacy behind rife with musings and critiques.

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 ...

Philosophy professor John Kaag's 2016 book, American Philosophy, was a heady mix of memoir and intellectual history wrapped up in a romantic story of a lost library and new love. In Hiking with ...

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, ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Michael M. Grynbaum NIETZSCHE AND THE BURBS By Lars Iyer A clique of misfit teenagers in suburban ...