The aim of the course is to introduce students to the context and events, which influenced Nietzsche’s thinking and also to enlarge the interpretational framework for reading Nietzsche’s works. During the seminars, the texts will be read in German and will be compared with the Czech translation. Through hermeneutical and semantic-linguistic method will be interpreted selected passages in order to clarify terminology.

1) Life and work – Röcken, Naumburg, Bonn, Basel, Schopenhauer’s, Overbeck’s and the Wagners’ influence, Tribeschen - The Birth of Tragedy (1872), since 1873 Untimely Meditations

2) Refusing metaphysics – naturalist-psychological approach, Human, All Too Human, The Dawn – critique of metaphysics, ontology, idea of God

3) New turnover to metaphysics through objective will to power, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Will To Power, The Antichrist – cosmology, will to power, eternal return of the same, will to power and interpretation