The Dawn of Day or Dawn or Daybreak is an 1881 book by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. According to the Nietzsche scholar Keith Ansell-Pearson, it is the least studied of all of Nietzsche's works. This relative obscurity is mostly due to the greater attention paid to his subsequent writings. In his last original book Ecce Homo, Nietzsche writes that Daybreak was the "book [in which] my... Wikipedia