Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher, psychologist, and classical philologist. He was a severe critic of morality, Utilitarianism, contemporary philosophy, materialism, German idealism, German romanticism, and of modernity in general. He is among the most readable of philosophers and penned a large number of aphorisms and varied experimental forms of composition. Although his work was distorted and thus identified with Philosophical Romanticism, Nihilism, Anti-semitism, and even Nazism, he himself vociferously denied such tendencies in his work, even to the point of directly opposing them. In philosophy and literature, he is often identified as an inspiration for existentialism and postmodernism. His thought is, by many accounts, most difficult to comprehend in any systemized form and remains a vivacious topic of debate.

See Also

God is dead | Arthur Schopenhauer | Emil Cioran | Franz Kafka | Gilles Deleuze | Heraclitus | Jacques Derrida | Jean-Paul Sartre | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach | Martin Heidegger | Max Stirner | Michel Foucault | Philipp Mainländer | Richard Wagner | Socrates | Søren Kierkegaard | Walter Kaufmann, Menno ter Braak

Related Topics:
God is dead - Arthur Schopenhauer - Emil Cioran - Franz Kafka - Gilles Deleuze - Heraclitus - Jacques Derrida - Jean-Paul Sartre - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach - Martin Heidegger - Max Stirner - Michel Foucault - Philipp Mainländer - Richard Wagner - Socrates - Søren Kierkegaard - Walter Kaufmann - Menno ter Braak

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