Word: nietzschean
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...Rather they involve the immediate, second-to-second perceptions and judgments by which we decide within ourselves about the character of our fellow human beings. The nature of the Good and Evil on which these judgments are based (either by us or by Strindberg) is no more Nietzschean than it is Christian or humanitarian or Talmudie...
Trying to imagine the Strindberg who wrote The Ghost Sonata, I think of a devoted Nietzschean suddenly confronted by a sweet little girl holding a lollipop and an affectionate puppydog. For an unguarded moment he is charmed; but the girl goes her way, and the play-wright reflects that perhaps the candy only reveals her materialism, and the dog her slavish dependence on pets. He becomes hopelessly despairing, then immeasurably compassionate. He writes a poem...
...Arthur hollers it, this is a call to revolution. But Arthur is the natural (as opposed to the political) revolutionary. He is the man in love with life, the Nietzschean yeasayer who devours all ex perience, even the experience of a brutal beating, and finds it nourishing. Author Sillitoe has recognized and unforgettably defined a type. Actor Finney, under the keen direction of Karel Reisz, a gifted maker of documentary movies, embodies the type with remarkable vigor and exact ness. Finney's strongest asset as an actor is his presence, an inward weight that holds the center of every...
...Author Rhodes's view, is largely the work of two poets-Dante.'with his "conception of a revised Roman Empire which lay dormant in the Italian mind for nearly 600 years." and D'Annunzio. who grafted onto this conception a set of Machiavellian politics and alien Nietzschean notions of a Mediterranean superman...
...chance to wrest a heroic identity from a world of regimented boredom and blurring mediocrity. In a sick society, the superman becomes a monster. A trip to the morgue finally opens Gerard's eyes to the monstrosity of Nunne, but not before the reader has suffered much quasi-Nietzschean chatter to the effect that "if a man could kill all his illusions, he'd become...