Michel Foucault (1926 – 1984) is considered by many the greatest thinker of the 20th century. His most famous work focuses on two things: sexuality and its construction (his concern with this issue was always at hand; he was openly, albeit quietly, homosexual ), which he discusses in three vo...

In his process of drawing the distinction between a thing and its meaning, Friedrich Nietzsche approaches the long established concept of morality, among numerous other concepts, strictly with initial doubt. In doing so, he scrutinizes and, eventually, discredits them. In order to do that, he begins...

Existentialism is the title of the set of philosophical ideals that emphasizes the existence of the human being, the lack of meaning and purpose in life, and the solitude of human existence. Existentialism maintains existence precedes essence: this implies that the human being has no essence, no es...

Nietzsche "God Is Dead" Out of all the things I could have chosen to write about, for some reason "Twilight of the Idol's' caught my eye It was kind of a catchy title, and it was the last thing that Nietzsche wrote that had any merit before he went ...