The third volume of Han’s Urs von Balthasar’s Early Writings, The Apocalypse of the German Soul. Studies for a Doctrine of Ultimate Positions is itself divided into three volumes. All three deal with the history of the eschatological problem in German thought. This second volume, Under the Sign of Nietzsche (1939), focuses on the “Dionysian Principle,” which finds expression in a contrast between “life” and “spirit.” It is this contrast that Balthasar traces through a series of thinkers such as Bergson, Klages, George, Spitteler, Rilke, before concluding with a comparison between Nietzsche und Dostoyevsky.