Great Philosophers: Nietzsche

''God is dead'', announced Nietzsche - before going on to abolish himself.

Envious contemporaries of Nietzsche ridiculed him as a mad man - and yet they came closer than they knew in characterising a philosopher in whose thought ambivalence approximated to disintegration of the self.

While the nineteenth century''s coherent, consistent systems of certainty came crashing down ingloriously at the ver...