ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author talks about the religious implications of literary and philosophical texts of Friedrich Nietzsche. He was born at Rocken, in the Prussian province of Saxony, in 1844. He became a professor of classical philology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 1869, but resigned ten years later, pleading his poor health. For the next ten years, he spent his summers in Switzerland and his winters in Italy, devoting himself entirely to writing. In January 1889, he collapsed in the street and suffered a complete physical and mental breakdown. Of his early essays, The Birth of Tragedy is the best known. His major works are: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Toward a Genealogy of Morals, The Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Ecce Homo, and Nietzsche contra Wagner. The Will to Power, sometimes erroneously designated as Nietzsche's last work, is a collection of some of his notes in a topical arrangement not his own.
