Friedrich Nietzsche's views on women

Women as source of all folly and unreason

As Leonard Lawlor and Zeynep Direk point out, "What Nietzsche says -and repeats with hysterical insistence- is that woman is the source of all folly and unreason, the siren figure who lures the male philosopher out of his appointed truth-seeking path."

Übermensch Übermensch and Nazis

The term Übermensch was used frequently by Hitler and the Nazi regime to describe their idea of a biologically superior Aryan or Germanic master race; a..

Friedrich Nietzsche Übermensch

Another concept important to an understanding of Nietzsche's thought is the (translated variously as overman, superman, or super-human). Developing the..

My Sister and I (Nietzsche) Sources

Walter Kaufmann: Nietzsche and the Seven Sirens. In: Partisan Review, vol. 19, no. 3 (May/June 1952), pp. 372–376 (incl. in Amok-Edition) Walter Ka..

Nietzschean affirmation

() is a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. An exemplary formulation of this kind of affirmation can be sought in Nietzsche's Nachlass:

Franz Overbeck

Franz Camille Overbeck (16 November 1837 – 26 June 1905) was a German Protestant theologian. In Anglo-American discourse, he is perhaps best known in re..