Exhibit · Genealogy
Nietzsche Genealogy
Concepts as trajectories through Nietzsche’s published corpus — they surface, mutate, and sometimes contradict themselves without resolution. Every edge cites a section.
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Concept trajectories
Each trajectory is also available as a plain, cited reading list — stable URLs for search and sharing. The interactive canvas above stays the primary way to explore.
Eternal recurrence
Ewige Wiederkunft · seed trajectory · 10 edges
Surfaces as a psychological test in 1882, becomes Zarathustra's teaching while the text itself disputes its status, is revised toward cosmology and ideal in 1886, and is retrospectively declared central in 1888. The corpus never settles whether it is a doctrine or an ordeal.
Plain list →Amor fati
Amor fati · 9 edges
From the New Year wish of 1882 through the ordeal of recurrence to the late formula of greatness: wishing nothing different, necessity loved rather than endured.
Plain list →Décadence
Décadence · 10 edges
Socrates, Wagner, romantic hunger: decadence as a physiological and cultural verdict running from the middle works into Twilight and Ecce Homo.
Plain list →Master and slave morality
Herren- und Sklavenmoral · 11 edges
From the typology of BGE 260 into the historical struggle of the Genealogy — Rome against Judea inside modern valuations, never a settled dualism.
Plain list →Nihilism
Nihilismus · 11 edges
The climate after the death of God: values that devalue themselves, the need for belief, and the late self-portrait as the crisis that answers them.
Plain list →Perspectivism
Perspektivismus · 10 edges
Knowing as interpretation across Joyful Science and Beyond Good and Evil — infinite perspectives without collapsing into the comfort of mere relativism.
Plain list →Ressentiment
Ressentiment · 9 edges
Named in the Genealogy as the creative force of slave morality, anticipated in Beyond Good and Evil, and still audible in the late psychology of strength and reactivity.
Plain list →The death of God
Tod Gottes · 9 edges
From the madman’s marketplace proclamation through Book V’s European shadow to the late claim of dynamite against millennial falsehood. The event is never finished; its meaning keeps widening.
Plain list →The Dionysian and Apollonian
Dionysisch und Apollinisch · 12 edges
Born as aesthetic polarity in The Birth of Tragedy, criticised in 1886, reworked against romanticism, and sealed as Dionysian affirmation in the late works.
Plain list →The free spirit
Freigeist · 11 edges
From the Joyful Science’s free spirits through Beyond Good and Evil’s discipline of honesty to the late claim that emancipation becomes destiny.
Plain list →Will to power
Wille zur Macht · 12 edges
Published appearances only — hypothesis and valuation in Beyond Good and Evil, not the forged notebook book. The will to power names a way of reading life and value-creation.
Plain list →Übermensch
Übermensch · 11 edges
Zarathustra’s teaching of the overman against the last man; the higher men of Part IV never close the gap. The type remains a task, not a specimen.
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