Abstract

To everyone else, and especially to those who wish to exclude him from the charmed circle of philosophers, Nietzsche is a poetic, dithyrambic, romantic-aesthetic writer. But he insists that he is anti-romantic and engages in a long, drawn-out argument against romantic pessimism and romantic idealism. Del Caro poses a simple question that requires a complex, multidimensional answer: what was Nietzsche's relation to romanticism in general and German romanticism in particular?