Friedrich Nietzsche

This artist name may refer to: 1. Musical compositions of Friedrich Nietzsche 2. Audiobooks of Nietzsche's writings Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900), was a nineteenth-century German philosopher. He wrote critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive style and displaying a fondness for aphorism. Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism. His style, and radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth, raise considerable problems of interpretation, generating an extensive secondary literature in both continental and analytic philosophy. Nonetheless, his key ideas include interpreting tragedy as an affirmation of life, an eternal recurrence that has fallen into numerous interpretations, and a reversal of Platonism. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.