| Description |
412 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Drama of disillusionment: Inventing a life -- Schopenhauer and the will to style -- Birth of the birth of tragedy -- Redemption through art -- Untimely meditations -- Panacea of knowledge -- Human, all too human -- Bicameral system of culture -- Daybreak and grand inspiration -- Eternal recurrence and the gay science -- Lou Salome and the quest for intimacy -- Setting the stage for the will to power -- Finale in Turin -- Europe discovers Nietzsche -- Chronicle of Nietzsche's life |
| Summary |
No other modern philosopher has proved as influential as Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1990) & none is as poorly understood. In the first major biography in decades, Rudiger Safranski re-creates the anguished life of Nietzsche while simultaneously assessing the philosophical implications of his morality, religion, & art. Plagued by illness & profoundly shaped by his tortured sexuality, Nietzsche was a man of masks & mood swings, a thinker who called himself "dynamite" yet labored under the weight of compulsive self-consciousness. Posing apt questions & at time offering unorthodox interpretations of Nietzsche's philosophical writings, Safranski offers a brilliant portrait of a historical figure in a work that is as groundbreaking as it will be long-lasting |
| Notes |
Originally published in German as Nietzsche. Biographie Seines Denkens |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
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Philosophers -- Germany.
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Philosophers -- Germany -- Biography.
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Philosophy, German -- 19th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2001052130 |
| ISBN |
0393050084 hardback |
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