Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

German Philosopher

1844-1900

An individualistic moralist rather than a systematic philosopher, influenced by Schopenhauer and by his early friendship with Richard Wagner, he passionately rejected the "slave morality" of Christianity for a new, heroic morality that would affirm life. Leading this new society would be a breed of supermen whose "will to power" would set them off from the "herd" of inferior humanity. His writings, e.g., Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-91) and Beyond Good and Evil (1886), were later used as a philosophical justification for nazi doctrines of racial and national superiority; most scholars, however, regard this as a perversion of Nietzsche's thought.

See Also:

• Engels
• Sartre
• Everything Postmodern
  Derrida, Foucault, West, Baudrillard, and Rorty
• The Nihilism Association
  "Nihilism, there is Nothing to It"
• Derrida, From Brown University
  Jacques Derrida
• Listserv Derrida Discussion
  A Discussion of Deconstruction and Derrida
• USC's Nietzsche
  Nietzsche Page at USC
• #Philosophy Homepage
  Nietzsche, Postmodernist Philosophies
• North American Nietzsche society
• Journal of Nietzsche Studies
• The King of Nietzsche Sites
  by Bjorn Christianssen
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra,
  Fromm UMich
• Surrealism Page
• Sartre
• Egoist Archive

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