The five essays that make up the work, never disconnected from an overt critique of rationality and reason and a continuous confrontation with the real world, range from an analysis of the fear of death to a sense of respect, from the new cults of contemporary society to the desecration of values and the sacred. Finally, the fifth of them represents, in an almost aphoristic synthesis, nine different dimensions of beauty in which to inhabit, to clothe oneself with, and through which to live authentically and consciously.
The common thread that binds them is precisely “that holy saying yes to life,” an expression so beloved by Nietzsche, which extols the supreme value of existence and summarizes much of his thought.
The essays express the hope for a new course, a new genesis that will lead 'mankind away from the nihilisms of the past and present, a hope masterfully expressed by Friedrich Hölderlin's wonderful poems that augur the advent of a new spirituality and a new God.