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Nietzsche, Friedrich

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  1. A nineteenth-century German thinker. Nietzsche, who asserted that “God is dead,” was passionately opposed to Christianity. He developed the concept of the Superman, or “Overman” (Übermensch), a superior human being, not bound by conventional notions of right and wrong.


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Nietzsche, Friedrich, 21, 38, 144, 327, 329, 331, 333-335, 360; Elisabeth Foerster, 329, 333, 334.

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 10, 68, 66, 85-86, 115, 119, 133, 134, 181, 218, 229, 251.

From ?mile Verhaeren by Zweig, Stefan

Nietzsche, Friedrich W., 108, 140, 158, 160, 161.

From Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Bithell, Jethro