One of the pitfalls of writing a biography of a great philosopher is the temptation to reduce important ideas to mere psychology, an outgrowth of some fluke in the philosopher’s personal development.

In Friedrich Nietzsche's final book, Ecce Homo, the chapter titles alone indicate Conor McGregor levels of megalomania: 'Why I Am a Destiny'; 'Why I Am So Wise'; 'Why I Write Such Excellent Books'. In ...

erman professor Berthold Damshäuser has translated some of Friedrich Nietzsche’s most “nutritious” aphorisms into Indonesian and compiled them in a book. “Be yourself” is perhaps one of the most ...

When I was an adolescent, I adored Nietzsche. He was the philosophical version of heroin: forbidden, dangerous, ecstatic, incomprehensible. I knew all the key phrases '“ 'what does not kill me makes ...

On the morning of January 3rd, 1889 a half-blind German professor, sporting a luxurious moustache, left his lodgings on the third floor of Via Carlo Alberto 6 in Turin. He was used to taking his daily ...

The following is an excerpt from Nietzsche: Great Thinkers on Modern Life, a new series published by The School of Life. In this particular chapter, author John Armstrong uses the philosopher's works ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. On January 3 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche left his lodgings on the Piazza Carlo Alberto in Turin. Seeing a carriage ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Asked who the most overrated author was in a recent interview, Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist-at-large extraordinaire, named ...