For readers both acquainted with and new to the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche NOW! frames and explains Nietzsche's thinking on topics of immediate contemporary concern and relevance. Wallis unpacks Nietzsche's complex philosophy with a deft, empathetic, and brilliantly subtle analysis of the views of the Great Immoralist on democracy, identity, civilization, consciousness, religion, and other momentous topics. Throughout, Wallis includes ample extracts from Nietzsche himself.

Rather than skirting what is controversial or editing for easy consumption, Wallis invites readers to exercise a courageous curiosity that yields a rich, nuanced understanding of Nietzsche. In Nietzsche NOW! he takes readers on a sometimes counterintuitive, always revelatory journey to grasp the relevance of Nietzsche for our contentious times. 

Nietzsche NOW! contains Wallis's original German translations of Nietzsche's writings from the critical edition along with insights drawn from a decades-long close study of Nietzsche's works and their academic reception. 

Contents

Dedication

Prologue: Why Nietzsche? Why Now?

Reader, Nietzsche

Childhood and youth

University

Professorship

Interlude: war

An end and a beginning

The wanderer

Breakdown and death

We Perfect Readers

How to read like a cow

What to Pack: Truth, Consciousness, Embodiment

Truth

Consciousness

Embodiment

Democracy

Democracy as an antidote to tyranny

Democracy as tyranny

Master morality and slave morality

"To where must we reach with our hopes?"

Identity

The principle of identity

Personality crisis

Political ramifications13

Wokeness and Ideology

Wokeness?

"The Woke Mob Is Everywhere!"

Public opinion

Agon

Perspective

Five readings

Overcoming

Nihilism

Becoming who you are

Being-nature

Being-body

Being-animal

Civilization

Representative types

The human animal

The artist

The free spirit

The new philosopher

The immoralist

The Übermensch

Virtue

Curiosity

Honesty

Courage

Pathos of distance

Solitude

Sense of humor

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

About the Author