This work is rightly considered Nietzsche’s main achievement. Almost all modern trends of thought owe their emergence to it.
Linking the will precisely with the phenomenon of life, Nietzsche considers the will to power as an “embodied will to life”—the leading incentive for activity and the core capacity of the human being. This very will to power is the foundation of everything that exists; it is “the inner essence of Being itself.”
Seeing modern morality as false and hostile to life, the author speaks as a “radical nihilist” and calls for a fundamental revaluation of the values of philosophy, culture, and religion.