Župančič and Nietzsche

Abstract

The article records and analyzes the most typical of Župančič's poetic works and some statements that allow the discussion of the echoes of Nietzsche's philosophy or, rather, the system of those ideological-cultural elements and of ideas and aesthetics that are emcompassed by the term Nietzscheism. The Thematic complexes that brought Župančič closest to Nietzsche, particularly in the volumes Čaša opojnosti and Čez plan, are the criticism of christianity and the cult of the artist and artistic creativity.