The expression appears in The Antichrist, published in 1895 and written several years earlier ; a fuller development of Nietzsche's argument can be found in a prior work, On the Genealogy of Morality.

When it comes to the use of divine hiddenness as an objection or evidence against God, Daniel Howard-Snyder and Paul Moser in the introduction to a volume of papers dedicated to refutations of Schellenberg's argument, cite Nietzsche's question: " a god who is all-knowing and all-powerful and who does not even make sure his creatures understand his intentions — could that be a god of goodness?

On MacIntyre's account, it is especially Nietzsche's utter repudiation of the possibility of moral rationality that is the outcome of the Enlightenment's mistaken quest for a final and definitive argument that will settle moral disputes into perpetuity by power of a calculative reason alone and without use of teleology.

Friedrich Nietzsche's works such as Thus Spoke Zarathustra frequently resemble prose poetry and contain imagery and allusion instead of argument.

Also sprach Zarathustra, literally " Thus Spoke Zarathustra ", is also the title to Nietzsche's most famous work of philosophy, which introduced the Übermensch ( overmen ) and popularized the phrase " God is dead ".

The album lyrically reviews subjects such as Laicism, Nietzsche's “ God is dead ” philosophy, heroes of the German Resistance in World War II, and their country's ongoing struggle to reconcile with its past.

The book takes the term from Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, where it is used in the context of the often nauseating quality of existence.

In this last respect, the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy is evident.

Though the problem of nihilism becomes especially explicit in Nietzsche's notebooks ( published posthumously ), it is mentioned repeatedly in his published works and is closely connected to many of the problems mentioned there.

This observation stems in part from Nietzsche's perspectivism, or his notion that " knowledge " is always by someone of some thing: it is always bound by perspective, and it is never mere fact.

Stanley Rosen identifies Nietzsche's concept of nihilism with this situation of meaninglessness, where " everything is permitted.

The inability for Christianity to serve as a source of valuating the world is reflected in Nietzsche's famous aphorism of the madman in The Gay Science.

Nietzsche's relation to the problem of nihilism is a complex one.

For in these was reflected that which a personality must feel concerning the evolution and essential being of humanity when this personality is kept back from grasping the spiritual world by the restricted thought in the philosophy of nature characterizing the end of the 19th century .... What attracted me particularly was that one could read Nietzsche without coming upon anything which strove to make the reader a ' dependent ' of Nietzsche's.

Nietzsche's signature work is to attempt the transvaluation of values, that is, to transcend the inherited Jewish and Christian politics, psychology and ethics of ressentiment and guilt.

Owing to Wagner's relationship with the then unknown philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the first Bayreuth festival is cited as a key turning point in Nietzsche's philosophical development.

If Nietzsche's Zarathustra is religious ... then Tsuji's teaching would be a better religion than Nietzsche's, for Tsuji lives in accord with his principles as himself ...

The term is considered philosophically useful, however, as what came to be known as the Athenian school ( composed of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle ) signaled a profound shift in the subject matter and methods of philosophy ; Friedrich Nietzsche's thesis that this profound shift began with Plato rather than with Socrates ( hence his nomenclature of " pre-Platonic philosophy ") was not sufficient to prevent the rise and perpetuation of the phrase " pre-Socratic philosophy.

Den sidste Messias ( English: The Last Messiah ), published in 1933, is one of Peter Wessel Zapffe's most significant essays as well as concepts, which sums up his own thoughts from his book, On the Tragic, and, as a theory describes a reinterpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's Übermensch.

More specifically, this note related to the concept of the eternal recurrence, which is, by Nietzsche's admission, the central idea of Zarathustra ; this idea occurred to him by a " pyramidal block of stone " on the shores of Lake Silvaplana in the Upper Engadine, a high alpine region whose valley floor is at 6, 000 ft. Nietzsche planned to write the book in three parts over several years.

Apart from its salient presence in Zarathustra, it is also echoed throughout Nietzsche's work.

The eternal recurrence, found elsewhere in Nietzsche's writing, is also mentioned.

Part of Nietzsche's reactionary thought is also that the creature he most sincerely loathes is the spirit of revolution, and his hatred for the anarchist and rebel.

Though the notion appears frequently throughout Nietzsche's work, he uses the term in a variety of ways, with different meanings and connotations, both positive and negative.

Later describing Nietzsche's work as " a revelation ", he felt that reading the book deepy affected him, and he subsequently " broke with my life " as he had formerly experienced it.

Despite his rejection of the Macchiaioli approach, Modigliani nonetheless found favour with his teacher, who referred to him as " Superman ", a pet name reflecting the fact that Modigliani was not only quite adept at his art, but also that he regularly quoted from Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

It was Nietzsche's " Birth of Tragedy " in 1872 that re-posed the question of Dionysus's relation with the theatre that elevated interest in The Bacchae.

Nietzsche's philosophy with its rejection of rationalism, immensely influenced the culture of the fin de siècle.

Sudermann returned to novels with Es War (" It Was ", 1894, the title referring to Section 2, § 1 of Nietzsche's Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen ), a protest against the fruitlessness of brooding repentance.

Particularly this had associations with Friedrich Nietzsche's Übermensch.

The work concludes with a short ode to friendship in verse form ( continuing Nietzsche's use of poetry in The Gay Science and Thus Spoke Zarathustra ).

One example would be Nietzsche's term Übermensch, discussed below ; another example is the Deutschlandlied, which begins with the well-known words " Deutschland, Deutschland über alles " meaning " Germany, Germany above everything " ( this strophe is not sung anymore, because it is mistaken as meaning " Germany above the rest of the world "; its original meaning was the German nation above its constituent states Hanover, Württemberg etc.

* Milan Kundera's seminal work, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, is rooted in the concept of Eternal Return, with the narration explicitly referring to and building on Nietzsche's interpretation.

* Jim Morrison, who was familiar with Nietzsche's works, spoke about the idea of eternal recurrence.

This book represents the beginning of Nietzsche's " middle period ", with a break from German Romanticism and from Wagner and with a definite positivist slant.

His interpretation of Nietzsche's will to power was concerned with the individual patient's overcoming of the superiority-inferiority dynamic.

While researching materials for the Italian translation of Nietzsche's complete works in the 1960s, philologists Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari decided to go to the Archives in Leipzig to work with the original documents.

Nevertheless, the concept remains, and has, since the reading of Karl Löwith, been identified as a key component of Nietzsche's philosophy, so much so that Heidegger, under Löwith's influence, considered it to form, with the thought of the eternal recurrence, the basis of his thought.

The German dramatist Heiner Müller, who along with Caryl Churchill and Pina Bausch has been identified as having produced a fusion or critical dialogue between Artaudian and Brechtian performance in their work ( which is one characteristic of the postmodern in theatre ), argues that we have yet to feel or to appreciate fully Artaud's contribution to theatrical culture ; his ideas are, Müller implies, ' untimely ' ( in Nietzsche's sense ):

London's intention in writing The Sea-Wolf was " an attack on ( Nietzsche's ) super-man philosophy.

*: The article on Whorf states " Drawing on Nietzsche's ideas of perspectivism Alfred Korzybski developed the theory of general semantics which has been compared to Whorf's notions of linguistic relativity.

His work relies largely on Nietzsche's critique of progress and historicism in western intellectual history.

They began work on a new and complete edition of Nietzsche's collected works, making Nietzsche more accessible for scholarly research.

Drawing on Nietzsche's ideas of perspectivism Alfred Korzybski developed the theory of general semantics which has been compared to Whorf's notions of linguistic relativity.

The lectures on Nietzsche focused on fragments posthumously published under the title The Will to Power, rather than on Nietzsche's published works.

14, a large work for baritone voice, three choruses and orchestra, based on a passage from Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel of the same title.

Nietzsche's philosophy of history had a significant impact on critical history in the 20th century.

A papyrus fragment covering lines 917 – 33, part of a poem addressed to Democles ( identity unknown ) and considered on textual grounds to be a late addition to the Theognidean corpus, probably fifth centuryCoincidentally, Nietzsche's first published article, On the History of the Collection of the Theognidean Anthology ( 1867 ), concerned the textual transmission of the poems.

* The comic-book hero Superman, when Jerome " Jerry " Siegel first created him, was originally a villain modeled on Nietzsche's idea ( see " The Reign of the Super-Man ").

This characteristic ( following the genre of the bildungsroman ) can be seen an inline commentary on Zarathustra's ( and Nietzsche's ) philosophy.

His vision of the " new man " transcending constraints of convention is reminiscent of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil ; his views on sexual liberation bear comparison to D. H. Lawrence ; and his " dynamic " meditations owe a debt to Wilhelm Reich.

* Nietzsche's views on women

Différance, instead, focuses on the play of presence and absence, and, in effecting a concentration of certain thinking, Derrida takes on board the thought of Freud's unconscious ( the trace ), Heidegger's destruction of ontotheology, Nietzsche's play of forces, and Bataille's notion of sacrifice in contrast to Hegel's Aufheben.

As its title implies, MacIntyre's aim in this book is to examine three major rival traditions of moral inquiry on the intellectual scene today ( encyclopaedic, genealogical and traditional ) which each in turn was given defense from a canonical piece published in the late nineteenth century ( the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals and Pope Leo XIII's Aeterni Patris, respectively ).

His critique in chapter IX of Nietzsche's and Foucault's genealogical mode as implicitly committed to an emancipatory and continuous notion of self which they cannot account for on their own terms has been of particular influence.

Heidegger was adamant about this distinction, which carried on Nietzsche's critique of the subject.

It described and commented on all of Nietzsche's books, and also provided quotations from each book.

In contrast, the concept of eternal recurrence imposes a “ heaviness ” on our lives and on the decisions we make ( to borrow from Nietzsche's metaphor, it gives them " weight ".