Aurore : sur quelles lumières débouche le travail en profondeur ?

Nietzsche’s Aurore (Morgenrothe, Daybreak; 1881) should be read for itself, and not as an anticipation of his later views (on « psychology », « genealogy », or the « will to power »). It consists in a criticism of culture, i.e. of morals, in which Nietzsche claims to draw his methods from the French moralists. He describes his task as an undermining, but this sapping metaphor has unexpected philosophical implications : it does not result in the digging up of a solid base or foundation, but leads to the nihil of the death of God.