Die fröhliche Wissenschaft
Nietzsche titled aphorism 377 in the fifth book of "The Gay Science" (published in 1887) "We who are homeless" ("Wir Heimatlosen"), in which he criticized pan-Germanism and patriotism and called himself a "good European". In the second part of this aphorism, which according to Bataille contained the most important parts of Nietzsche's political thought, the thinker of the Eternal Return stated: