Friedrich Nietzsche was born four years prior to the 1848 revolutions — events that ushered into existence an era the German philosopher held in contempt. In his writing, he sought explicitly ...

In his “Beyond Good and Evil,” Friedrich Nietzsche proposes what he calls a “rule as a riddle.” It goes like this: “If the ...

Nietzsche's work was largely unknown during the course of his short life. He died in 1900 at the age of 55 after suffering a degenerative brain disease. Decades after Friedrich Nietzsche died ...