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Philosophical concept

Will to power

Will to power interprets life as a plural play of forces that organize, resist, and transform; it is neither reducible to political conquest nor identical with the posthumous compilation bearing that title.

Works
25
Passages
3,593
Thinkers
2
Traditions
2

Understand uses of the concept

Will to power interprets life as a plural play of forces that organize, resist, and transform; it is neither reducible to political conquest nor identical with the posthumous compilation bearing that title.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 3,593 passages across 25 works, including Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology, Thus Spoke Zarathustra I, Thus Spoke Zarathustra II. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: volonté de puissance, will to power, wille zur macht

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
  2. Thus Spoke Zarathustra IFriedrich Nietzsche · 34 passages
  3. Thus Spoke Zarathustra IIFriedrich Nietzsche · 25 passages
  4. Thus Spoke Zarathustra IIIFriedrich Nietzsche · 62 passages
  5. Thus Spoke Zarathustra IVFriedrich Nietzsche · 63 passages
  6. David StraussFriedrich Nietzsche · 31 passages
  7. The AntichristFriedrich Nietzsche · 65 passages
  8. The Case of WagnerFriedrich Nietzsche · 17 passages
  9. The Birth of TragedyFriedrich Nietzsche · 59 passages
  10. The Gay ScienceFriedrich Nietzsche · 472 passages
  11. Dionysian DithyrambsFriedrich Nietzsche · 16 passages
  12. Ecce HomoFriedrich Nietzsche · 73 passages
  13. A New Year's WordFriedrich Nietzsche · 0 passages
  14. Twilight of the IdolsFriedrich Nietzsche · 147 passages
  15. Idylls from MessinaFriedrich Nietzsche · 8 passages
  16. Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich Nietzsche · 302 passages
  17. Human, All Too Human IFriedrich Nietzsche · 656 passages
  18. Human, All Too Human IIFriedrich Nietzsche · 769 passages
  19. DaybreakFriedrich Nietzsche · 581 passages
  20. Nietzsche contra WagnerFriedrich Nietzsche · 20 passages
  21. Richard Wagner in BayreuthFriedrich Nietzsche · 29 passages
  22. Schopenhauer as EducatorFriedrich Nietzsche · 32 passages
  23. Socrates and Greek TragedyFriedrich Nietzsche · 12 passages
  24. On the Use and Abuse of History for LifeFriedrich Nietzsche · 31 passages
  25. On the Genealogy of MoralityFriedrich Nietzsche · 84 passages