Tracing the passionate development of Nietzsche's thought from the aestheticism of The Birth of Tragedy through to the late doctrines of the Will To Power and Eternal Return, Fink exposes the central themes of Nietzsche's philosophy, revealing the philosopher as one who experienced a fate and who ultimately searched for an expression of his own ontological experience in a negative theology. Inspired by the phenomenological method of Edmund Husserl and by the work of Martin Heidegger, the author articulates Nietzsche's path of thinking to take the reader beyond a simple historical exposition of philosophical ideas.