The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
(NEE-chuh, NEE-chee) A nineteenth-century German thinker. Nietzsche, who asserted that “God is dead,” was passionately opposed to Christianity. He developed the concept of the Superman, or “Overman” (Übermensch), a superior human being, not bound by conventional notions of right and wrong.
