NIETZSCHE

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• NIETZSCHE (noun)
  The noun NIETZSCHE has 1 sense:

1. influential German philosopher remembered for his concept of the superman and for his rejection of Christian values; considered, along with Kierkegaard, to be a founder of existentialism (1844-1900)

  Familiarity information: NIETZSCHE used as a noun is very rare.

• NIETZSCHE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Influential German philosopher remembered for his concept of the superman and for his rejection of Christian values; considered, along with Kierkegaard, to be a founder of existentialism (1844-1900)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Nietzsche

Instance hypernyms:

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

 Context examples 

Slam Nietzsche into them and get walloped for your pains.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter months and read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer to rest his brain.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You are antediluvian anyway, with your Nietzsche ideas.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He'll talk Nietzsche, or Schopenhauer, or Kant, or anything, but the only thing in this world, not excepting Mary, that he really cares for, is his monism.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)