Both Uses of
Nietzsche
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult
- It was a copy of Raphael's Transfiguration, something I only knew because of an art history course I'd taken when I fancied myself in love with the TA who ran the class sessions—a tall, anemic guy with ski-slope cheekbones who wore black, smoked clove cigarettes, and wrote Nietzsche quotes on the back of his hand.†
Nietzsche = influential German philosopher remembered for his rejection of Christian values
- —FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, THE CAY SCIENCE M I C HAEL When inmates tried to kill themselves, they'd use the vent.†
*Friedrich Nietzsche = Friedrich Nietzsche -- influential German philosopher remembered for his rejection of Christian values
Definition:
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)