Throughout his life, Friedrich Nietzsche maintained a profound contempt for socialism. According to him, its advocates — and all other defenders of egalitarianism — had a single aim: leveling ...

Friedrich Nietzsche’s most chilling warning reads like a prophecy now: “He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if ...

When he habilitated at the tender age of 26, people made the inevitable comparisons to the youngest German philosopher to qualify for a professorship: Friedrich Nietzsche, at age 25. Felsch’s is ...

Arthur Schopenhauer called his writing the work of a “clumsy charlatan,” which rendered readers “incapable of reflection, coarse and bewildered.” His compatriot Friedrich Nietzsche snorted ...