**Friedrich Nietzsche in Sorrento. Italian interpretations of the philosopher of nihilism**
In the new volume *Per Nietzsche. Interpretazioni italiane* (La Valle del Tempo, 2025), the philosopher Pasquale Giustiniani collects a series of essays dedicated to the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, explored through the gaze of Italian philosophical culture. The book offers a fascinating journey through the many readings that, in our country, have been given to the author of the “death of God” and the superman: from the more classical ones, which see him as a radical critic of Christianity, to the more recent ones, which grasp his profound relevance in a postmodern key.
At the center of the work, the philosophical crux of nihilism: that crisis of meaning that, according to Nietzsche, runs through modernity and imposes on man the challenge of creating new values. There is no shortage of reflections on the eternal return, on the will to power, and on the meaning of a “philosophy to the hammer” that wants to break down certainties to free new possibilities of existence.
The book is also an opportunity to rediscover a lesser-known but evocative episode of Nietzsche’s biography: his stay in Sorrento, in 1876, where the philosopher lived one of his most serene and productive seasons. A Mediterranean setting that becomes a symbol of a profound reflection, solitary and at the same time open to the light.
A useful text for scholars, but also for curious and passionate readers, who want to understand why Nietzsche continues to fascinate, divide, and disturb. And why his voice, even today, speaks to us so closely.
