Nietzsche introduces his concept of will to power in § 2, using its relation to define notions of good, bad and happiness: This relates to Arthur Schopenhauer's claim that knowledge of the inner nature of the world and life results in 'perfect resignation, which is the innermost spirit of Christianity'. In section 1, Nietzsche expresses his dissatisfaction with modernity, listing his dislikes for the contemporary 'lazy peace', 'cowardly compromise', 'tolerance' and 'resignation'.

Very well, then! of that sort only are my readers, my true readers, my readers foreordained: of what account are the rest?-The rest are merely humanity.-One must make one's self superior to humanity, in power, in loftiness of soul,-in contempt. Characteristics such as 'trength which prefers questions for which no one today is sufficiently daring courage for the forbidden' are also needed. Also, the usefulness or harmfulness of truth should not be a concern. The reader should be above politics and nationalism. To understand the book, he asserts that the reader 'must be honest in intellectual matters to the point of hardness to so much as endure my seriousness, my passion'. Nietzsche claims in the preface to have written the book for a very limited readership. The German title can be translated into English as either The Anti-Christ or The Anti-Christian, depending on how the German word Christ is translated. Although it was written in 1888, its content made Franz Overbeck and Heinrich Köselitz delay its publication, along with Ecce Homo. The Antichrist (German: Der Antichrist) is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1895.

L'Anticristo by Friedrich Nietzsche