Friedrich Nietzsche

German philosopher, 1844–1900

Links

• Wikipedia
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Works

• The Birth of Tragedy (1872) — Contrasts Apollonian order with Dionysian chaos in art and existence.
• Human, All Too Human (1878) — A turn toward skepticism and aphoristic philosophy.
• The Gay Science (1882) — Introduces the death of God and the eternal recurrence.
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885) — His most famous work — the Übermensch, will to power, and eternal recurrence.
• Beyond Good and Evil (1886) — A critique of past philosophers and conventional morality.
• On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) — Traces the historical origins of moral concepts like good, evil, guilt, and bad conscience.
• Twilight of the Idols (1889) — A late, compressed summary of his philosophy.