The timeliness of these essays belies the political radicalism they express. Taken with his later works, especiallyBeyond Good and Evil and the Genealogy of Morals, one catches the man with his ideological 'pants-down'.--These essays contain in clearest definition, his project of revaluation, and there is no better 'clarification' ofwhat George Brandes named "aristocratic radicalism" than as it appears here, standing against the currentsof the timely and 'all-too-human' with a vision of what is to come: in all its danger, banality and glory. This isthe aurora before the great battle for Noontide, a Ragnarok for mediocrity and everything socialist.