Saul Bellow Response to Nietzsche Philosophy in the Victim

Friedrich nietzsche ideas on modern nihilism have consolidated saul bellow'svisions in the victim which portrays human anxieties and worries in the modernera. nietzsche considers christian morality infertile and emphasizes that it hasoriginated from life-denying interpretations that have ultimately resulted ineuropean nihilism. he admits nihilism with open arms and contends that there aretwo kinds of nihilism: passive and active. the active one can save modern man, heasserts, because it enables the seeker to go beyond all moral prejudices andjudgments. likewise, bellow suggests dealing with the problem of nihilism,accepting nihilistic conditions, and then trying to leave them behind in the same waythat nietzsche does. he depicts the nihilistic inclinations of modern human,especially after the world wars, declares his objections to them, and endeavors todiscern a way for overwhelming this predicament. he emphasizes the significance ofhumanity, as the common principle of humankind, to remove modern anxieties.