Richard Spencer, leading light of America’s alt-right, said in an interview last year that he was “red-pilled” by reading the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

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 ...

In distinguishing the world of love vs. one of hate, David Von Drehle cited the difference between two philosophers, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Friedrich Nietzsche ["Averting humanity's deadliest ...

Nietzsche’s thought hovered at the edge of the abyss, and he eventually crossed into it. The story goes that on Jan. 3, 1889, he broke down in Turin, Italy, upon watching a cabman abuse a horse.

Friedrich Nietzsche argued that the ‘will to power’ is the force that drives us as humans. He also said that ‘without music, life would be a mistake’. Despite finding most of his influence in ...

Can debates about right-wing philosophers encourage fascism? That’s what the University College London students’ union decided when it barred the Nietzsche Club from holding meetings.

Julian Young, a professor at the University of Auckland and Wake Forest University, has for the most part avoided this trap by writing a “philosophical” biography of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 ...

While strolling through the streets of Turin, Friedrich Nietzsche once spotted a horse being whipped. Inwardly moved, he flung his arms about the animal’s neck and wept bitterly. It was Jan. 3 ...

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher. Considered one of the first existentialists, he wrote texts on religion, philosophy and science. In the following passage from Thus Spake ...