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 ...

Nietzsche, the most misunderstood philosopher of them all, was born today. On his birthday, a list of others whose ideas and words have been spectacularly misappropriated. Friedrich Nietzsche was born ...

One way to think of On the Genealogy of Morals is as among the greatest horror novels ever written. Ostensibly a work of philosophical anthropology, its content is so speculative and shocking that it ...

Whether your resolutions for 2019 involve tackling your most persistent demons or simply finishing all the books you’ve started, the new year is a good time to turn over a new leaf. John Kaag finds an ...

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 ...

Wine, dance, frenzied rapture and theatrical performance. These are just some of the characteristics of the god Dionysus, who, in Euripides' masterpiece play of ancient Greece, "The Bacchae," arrives ...