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Nietzsche in America

A new book explores the reception and creative interpretation of Nietzsche's works in America. What emerges is a domesticated and more benign version of the philosopher. Read more...

Brian Leiter interviewed on Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, Occupy and more

'In the Nietzschean view, our conscious life is largely superficial, largely epiphenomenal'... Brian Leiter, author of the Leiter Reports weblog and an expert on Nietzsche, ranges widely in this long interview. Read more...

Christopher Hitchens on Nietzsche

Christopher Hitchens, who is in the late stage of a terminal illness,  questions Nietzsche's aphorism 'What does not destroy me makes me stronger' with characteristic wit and poignancy. Read more...

Did Nietzsche Have Syphilis?

There is a widespread belief that Friedrich Nietzsche's dementia stemmed from syphilis contracted from a prostitute in a Leipzig brothel. But that might be a smear put about by anti-Nazis, according to this 2003 article. Read more...

Julian Young Reconsidering Nietzsche

Julian Young, author of a recent biography of Nietzsche, gave an interesting interview in Harpers last autumn in which he explained, amongst other things, what it means to say that Nietzsche was a 'plural realist'. Read more...

Nietzsche, Nihilism, and Happiness in the Suburbs

God may well be dead, but what follows? Should we 'lower the conceit of attainable felicity'? Read more...

Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc?

Is reading Nietzsche dangerous? Disturbed young men read about doing philosophy with a hammer, and then what happens? Read more...