Nietzsche’s Cure for Negativity

How to Harness the “Will to Power”

To achieve exuberance Nietzsche believed that we need to understand that the Will to Power is the underlying force behind everything we are and do. Painting: Archers by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1935–37 (detail. source: Wikimedia)

The nineteenth century was a watershed for western civilisation. It was, for Nietzsche, the beginning of a great crisis for mankind.

Secularism spread rapidly across Europe but there was nothing to fill the void that religion had left.