Who is Fredrick Niche?

Question

I have now watched the AMAZING movie "Little Miss Sunshine" 3 times and still can't place who Fredrick Niche is... could be imaginary, but I am pretty sure he is not. Help

Answer 1

I'm sooo glad I've found someone on the same page as me! I looked him up on wikipedia for that reason (that's an EXCELLENT movie by the way, I bought the DVD the day it came out). Friedrich Nietzsche's famous for the quote "God is dead" and he was a philosopher who died crazy. Dwayne was reading his book, remember? He follows Nietzsche and his writings cause apperently he's an athesist and so was Nietzsche. Hope this explained a few things =]

Answer 2

Frederick Niche

Answer 3

Friedrich Nietzsche
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Name: Friedrich Nietzsche
Birth: October 15, 1844 (Röcken bei Lützen, Prussian Saxony)
Death: August 25, 1900 (Weimar, Germany)
School/tradition: Continental philosophy, Weimar Classicism; Precursor to Existentialism, Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Psychoanalysis
Main interests: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Ethics, Ontology, Philosophy of history, Psychology, Value theory
Notable ideas: Apollonian and Dionysian, Death of God, Eternal Recurrence, Herd instinct, Master-Slave Morality, Übermensch, Perspectivism, Will to Power
Influences: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Emerson, Goethe, Heine, Heraclitus, Kant, Plato, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Spinoza, Wagner
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) (IPA: [ˈfʁiːtʁɪç ˈniːtʃə]), a German-born philologist and philosopher.

Contents [hide]
1 Introduction
2 Biography
2.1 Youth (1844 – 1869)
2.2 Professor at Basel (1869–1879)
2.3 Free-lance philosopher (1879–1888)
2.4 Mental breakdown and death (1889–1900)
3 Key concepts
4 Works
4.1 The Birth of Tragedy
4.2 Untimely Meditations
4.3 Human, All Too Human
4.4 Daybreak
4.5 The Gay Science
4.6 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
4.7 Beyond Good and Evil
4.8 On the Genealogy of Morals
4.9 The Case of Wagner
4.10 The Twilight of the Idols
4.11 The Antichrist
4.12 Ecce Homo
4.13 Nietzsche Contra Wagner
4.14 The Unpublished Notebooks
5 Nietzsche's influence and reception
6 Notes
7 References
8 See also
9 External links
9.1 Full texts
9.2 Other sources



[edit] Introduction
Nietzsche produced critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, and philosophy, centering on what he viewed as fundamental questions regarding the life-affirming and life-denying qualities of different attitudes and beliefs. Nietzsche's works feature unique, free-form stylization – combined with a wide philosophical breadth – through the use of analyses, etymologies, punning, parables, paradoxes, aphorisms, and contradictions, employed to demonstrate the inadequacies of normative modes of thought. Nietzsche's contemporaries largely overlooked him during his short yet productive working life, which ended with a mental collapse in 1889. But he received recognition during the first half of the 20th century in German, French, and British intellectual circles, gaining notoriety when the Nazi Party appropriated him as a forerunner. By the second half of the 20th century he had become regarded as a highly significant and influential figure in modern philosophy

Answer 4

Friedrich Nietzsche was a 19th century writer and philosopher.

His work contributed to a number of philosophies including:

Existentialism

A philosophical movement that deals with human freedom. Existentialism itself is a revolt against traditional philosophy; it has been labeled a philosophy but a definition is difficult as its proponents have a marked difference in outlook. Existentialist thought concerns itself with trying to understand fundamentals of the human condition and its relation to the world around us. Basic questions include, 'what is it like to be a human in the world?' and 'what is the nature of human freedom?'.

Existentialism can be seen as a philosophical movement that rejects the belief that life has an inherent meaning, but instead requires each individual to posit his or her own subjective values. Existentialism, unlike other fields of philosophy, does not treat the individual as a concept, and values individual subjectivity over objectivity. As a result, questions regarding existence and subjective experience are seen as being of paramount importance, and initially above all other scientific and philosophical pursuits.

Answer 5

One side of Little Miss Sunshine feels as cute and calculated as a formulaic sitcom. The other serves up a sullen teen, who takes a vow of silence in honor of Nietzsche; and the world's preeminent Proust scholar, who attempts suicide because the love of his life has run off with the world's No. 2 Proust scholar.

Schmaltzy stuff. Smart stuff. It seems the twain can meet, in a yellow VW bus with a hilariously busted horn, on a dysfunctional road trip from New Mexico to Southern California.

Answer 6

He is a famous philosopher from Germany. Wrote many books and is considered to be one of the greatest in all times.

Answer 7

To make it short and sweet, Friedrich Nietzsche was a contemporary philosopher and intellectual. He asked the pertinent question, "Is God dead?"