In the first chapter of his book Beyond Good and Evil, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche describes the "will to truth" as the driving force behind philosophy and argues that philosophers are ...

In "Zarathustra's Secret: The Interior Life of Friedrich Nietzsche," he assumes that the philosopher had plenty to hide and uses letters, poems and his imagination to fill in the blanks.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: a name to conjure with. He was either a virulent atheist, best known for proclaiming the death of God, or the philosophical father to warlike, anti-Semitic Nazism, or ...

Friedrich Nietzsche is famous for this kind of bombast, but most of his works are unassuming in tone, and his sentences are always plain, direct and clear as a bell. Take for instance the celebrated ...

BOOK REVIEWS: This lucid and insightful biography reveals the life-long ill-health and volatile relationships that shaped Friedrich Nietzsche's most powerful and enduring ideas ...

The influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on modern psychology is slim. This is a shame. Nietzsche is vaguely remembered as a precursor of Freudianism, existentialism, and postmodernism, systems of ...

In a way, this is as much a biography of Nietzsche’s dark sister, Elizabeth. Not allowed to be educated, ... A Life Of Friedrich Nietzsche, by Sue Prideaux, Faber and Faber, £25.

In 1893 Elisabeth FA rster-Nietzsche returned to her motherâ?Ts adopted home town of Naumburg in Germany. She had been living in Paraguay with her husband, Bernhard FA rster, a nationalist and ...

Friedrich Nietzsche was born today in 1844. It’s been more than a century since his death (1900) and more than 50 years since he was internationally recognised as a major philosopher.

Nietzsche: a philologist and philosopher, a syphilitic madman, an immoralist. But a composer? Why, yes, as it turns out: in 1887, he wrote, “There has … ...