ABSTRACT
For Friedrich Nietzsche, yes-saying is of fundamental importance, but, in the event of the death of God, the required affirmation not only does not exclude negation, but positively includes & demands negation. Nietzsche writes in Ecce Homo, "Why I Am a Destiny":3 "I contradict as has never been contradicted before and am nevertheless the opposite of a No-saying spirit. I am a bringer of glad tidings like no one before me; I know tasks of such elevation that any notion of them has been lacking so far; only beginning with me are there hopes again. For all that, I am necessarily also the man of calamity. For when truth enters into a fight with the lies of millennia, we shall have upheavals, a convulsion of earthquakes, a moving of mountains and valleys, the like of which has never been dreamed of. The concept of politics will have merged entirely with a war of spirits; all power structures of the old society will have been exploded-all of them are based on lies: there will be wars the like of which have never yet been seen on earth.
