Cultural Reader

When  Nietzsche  says “ God is dead ,” he is not trying to win an argument about whether a divine being exists. In fact, the most Nietzschea...

Nietzsche ’s most famous line - “ God is dead ” - does not appear as a philosophical theorem. It arrives as a scene. A little drama. A parab...

Nietzsche’s line “God is dead” is often treated like a triumphant mic-drop from a rebellious atheist. But in its original spirit, it sounds ...

Your phone doesn’t buzz.  It summons . A small rectangle vibrates like a nervous oracle, and you—cultured mammal with a calendar, a conscie...

Both Hegel and Nietzsche share a common metaphor of "slave" and "master" to relate their philosophical ideas. While hav...

Master–slave morality (German: Herrenmoral und Sklavenmoral) is a central theme in Friedrich Nietzsche 's philosophy, particularly in hi...

Nietzsche is by no doubt one of the most profound and inspirational thinkers to read, but also one of the hardest to grasp. To make life eas...

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche was published in four volumes published between the year 1883 for the year 1885. This book is ...

Nietzsche's book The Gay Science Examines different subject areas from different perspectives. In the first book of The Gay Science, the...

On the usefulness and damage of history for life (in German Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen. Zweites Stück: Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil der Histori...

The Tragic Myth, according to Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy, is a symbolic or imagistic representation of Silenus' (or Dionysian) wi...

For Nietzsche, in The Birth of Tragedy , it is from music that tragedy originates and is truly understood. Paraphrasing Schopenhauer in his ...

Chapters 18 to 25 of Nietzsche 's The Birth of Tragedy deal with the displacement of the cultural-historical into present-day interpret...

In  The Birth of Tragedy   Nietzsche interprets the Greek tragedy as a culture of violent Titanic origin that emerged from an Apollonian ci...

According to  Nietzsche in the opening chapters of The Birth of Tragedy ,t he Greeks found expression in their arts, with two of their Oly...

The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music ( German:  Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik ) is an aesthetic treatise in whic...

Pathos of distance is a motif that is found in Friedrich Nietzsche 's later writings. It expresses the feeling of noble superiority and ...

Friedrich Nietzsche used the term the last man in his philosophical-literary work  Thus Spoke Zarathustra  (1883–1885) to create a contrast ...

For Nietzsche the  Übermensch is a development of man towards a higher form of being.  E xtrapolating ideas from Darwinism Nietzsche consid...

The eternal return (also known as eternal recurrence ) is a theory that the universe and all existence and energy have recurred and will con...