Given that the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche died in 1900, it might seem to be a stretch to turn to his ideas for inspiration about how to navigate the pitfalls of digital technology. And yet, since ...

Nietzsche’s vision of the human as a value-creating, self-overcoming agent speaks powerfully to the psychological and cultural ruptures of the AI age.

The Open Curriculum is explained as pushing students to be “intellectual risk-takers.” President Christina Paxson P’19 ...

GERMAN philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche introduced the concept of the “übermensch” or superman. This refers to a human being ...

There can be little doubt that Nietzsche is the most important figure in modern atheism, but you would never know it from reading the current crop of unbelievers, who rarely cite his arguments or even ...

Philosophy professor John Kaag's 2016 book, American Philosophy, was a heady mix of memoir and intellectual history wrapped up in a romantic story of a lost library and new love. In Hiking with ...

It takes a strong philosopher to assume control of a preposition and propel it into a foreign language. That is what Friedrich Nietzsche did with the word über. In German, it can mean “over,” “beyond, ...

Sean Illing is the host of The Gray Area podcast. Normally, a book about Nietzsche’s political theory would not be of interest to general audiences, but against the backdrop of Brexit and Donald Trump ...

Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, once introduced a concept of Übermensch. What exactly he meant by that is not 100% certain, but people throughout the decades have translated it as “overman” ...

How Nietzsche Came in from the Cold, by Philipp Felsch, trans. Daniel Bowles (Cambridge: Polity, 2024), $29.95 The most learned man I know suggests a comic figure. He is bald, short, and excitable. He ...