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Nietzschean

Nietzschean

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Connected to the ideas and style of the thinker Friedrich Nietzsche
  • adjective
  • /niˈtʃeɪən/
  • Formal
: nietzscheano
  • Will to power has a lot more to do with an individual in the Nietzschean story where that concept comes from.
  • Nietzschean historicism

Will to power has a lot more to do with an individual in the Nietzschean story where that concept comes from.

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Examples

  • But the Nietzschean perspective on human stature is hardly the only one.

    Academic text (1999)
  • What holds "humanistic," i.e., aesthetic, Nietzschean Marxism together is hatred of the human products of commercial republics.

    Academic text (1990)
  • In a Nietzschean mood, I would say: and we have to be strong to live!

    Blog text (3)
  • This is a typically Nietzschean frame, framework or theme.

  • Or, to use a different metaphor, it is unlikely that our struggle against him will not itself use Nietzschean weapons.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Contemporary scholarship takes up Nietzschean perspectivism as the starting point for a democratic challenge to the Enlightenment.

    Academic text (2000)
  • In its campy Hollywood way, it captures a serious Nietzschean criticism of liberal morality.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Said properly, the proclamation of the death of God is not some piece of Nietzschean extremism, but the implicit premise of a free, secular society.

    Academic text (1996)
  • In this way, Vattimo thinks through not just Heidegger, but the Nietzschean meaning of nihilism as the death of God, and the question of what values should animate our lives in the wake of this death.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The author's latest book provides a deep Nietzschean analysis of modern society.

Surface Forms

Nietzschean positive
Nietzschean comparative
Nietzschean superlative

Morphology

Nietzschean = Nietzsche (transparent) = Nietzsche + an

A standard adjective formed from the proper name 'Nietzsche' with the productive suffix '-an' meaning 'relating to or characteristic of'.

Etymology

The word Nietzschean comes from the German philosopher Nietzsche and the ending -an, which means 'related to' or 'belonging to', just like Shakespearean or Newtonian. So Nietzschean describes ideas, style, or views that are like those of Nietzsche.