Nietzsche and the "good Europeans" beyond Europe

The present essay reconstructs a concept that up until now has received little attention: Nietzsche's concept of 'über-europäisch' ('supra-European', 'over-European'), where Europe is what has to be overcome, gone beyond, left behind. His 'good Europeans' must not only be 'supra-national', but finally 'supra-European', i. e., they must be able, at least occasionally and temporarily, to transcend the horizon of western culture. This is the turn Nietzsche gives to his critique of European morals after the Zarathustra. In European history he sees, if not a tradition of overcoming boundaries, at least some isolated individuals who at times have approached a supra-European way of thinking, and sets himself the task of a 'supra-European view of Europe'.