Friedrich Nietzsche: a philosophical biography
"In this account, Julian Young provides the most comprehensive biography available today of the life and philosophy of the nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Young deals with the many puzzles created by the conjunction of Nietzsche's personal history and his work. Setting Nietzsche's thought in the context of his times, Young emphasizes the decisive influence of Plato and of Richard Wagner on Nietzsche's attempt to reform Western culture. He also describes the devastatin…
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- Full title :Friedrich Nietzsche : a philosophical biography / Julian Young.
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"In this account, Julian Young provides the most comprehensive biography available today of the life and philosophy of the nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Young deals with the many puzzles created by the conjunction of Nietzsche's personal history and his work. Setting Nietzsche's thought in the context of his times, Young emphasizes the decisive influence of Plato and of Richard Wagner on Nietzsche's attempt to reform Western culture. He also describes the devastating effect on Nietzsche's personality of his unhappy love for Lou Salome and attempts to understand why, at the age of forty-four, he went mad." "This book includes a selection of more than thirty photographs of Nietzsche, his friends and his work sites. Seventeen of the philosopher's musical compositions, which are key to a deeper understanding of his intellectual project are available online."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge [England]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 649 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations ; : 27 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780521871174, 0521871174
- oclc:ocn401714379
- LC Classification:B3316
- Dewey Decimal:193
Table of Contents
Da Capo -- Pforta -- Bonn -- Leipzig -- Schopenhauer -- Basel -- Richard Wagner and the birth of The birth of tragedy -- War and aftermath -- Anal philology -- Untimely meditations -- Aimez-vous Brahms? -- Auf Wiedersehen Bayreuth -- Sorrento -- Human, all-too-human -- The wanderer and his shadow -- Dawn -- The gay science -- The Salomé affair -- Zarathustra -- Nietzsche's circle of women -- Beyond good and evil -- Clearing the decks -- The genealogy of morals -- 1888 -- Catastrophe -- The rise and fall of The will to power -- The end -- Nietzsche's madness.
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