Rethinking Nietzsche's superman

Abstract

I.A The superman or the overman is one of the most problematic concepts in Nietzsche’s writing which due to its openness and its ambiguity, and yet centrality , functions as a key concept on which each interpreter builds his own interpretation of Nietzsche’s texts. Pearson’s essay ‘’The Superman’’ tries to with a close reading of Nietzsche’s aphorisms to clear the ambiguity that envelopes this concept and focuses on its necessity and human possibility leaving open space to question the extent to which the overman is not tainted with a metaphysical trace. Juxtaposing Pearson’s reading of the overman to Nietzsche’s chapter “The Seven Seals’’ will help us understand and rethink Pearson’s conclusions of the Nietzschian overman.