A short story about the Übermensch

Vladimir Solov'ëv's interpretation of and response to Nietzsche's ÜberMensch

Nel Grillaert

pp. 157-184

in: Studies in East European Thought 55 (2), 2003.

Abstract

From the 1890s on, the atheist philosopher F. Nietzsche exerted a profound and enduring impact on Russian religious, cultural, and social reality. The religious philosopher V.S. Solov'ëv perceived Nietzsche's thought as an actual threat to Russian religious consciousness and his own anthropological ideal of Divine Humanity. He was especially preoccupied with the idea of the Übermensch since sometwo decades before the Nietzschean Übermensch was popularized in Russia, Solov'ëv had already developed his own interpretation of the sverkhchelovek.

Cited authors

Nietzsche Friedrich

Solov'ev Vladimir