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Nietzsche later stated that with the second book of his itinerant life, Daybreak (1881), he embarked on a campaign against morality.⁴ All three books from those years – the latter text, along with the earlier Human, All‐Too‐Human (1878) and the subsequent The Gay Science (1882) – present bold new investigations into human history, culture, society, political life, and religion.

These works reveal traces of progressive Enlightenment thought. They explore humanity from a non‐religious, humanistic point of view. Nietzsche probed into the cultural rituals and behaviors of humankind and presented rational, naturalistic accounts for many of our practices and cultural institutions. In this period, Nietzsche employed the symbol of the free thinker to characterize his philosophizing.