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Friedrich Nietzsche A Philosophical Biography
Hardback Edition: 1
In this beautifully written 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: why the
son of a Lutheran pastor developed into the self-styled “Antichrist”; why
this archetypical Prussian came to loathe Bismarck’s Prussia; and why this enemy of feminism preferred the company of feminist women. Setting Nietzsche’s thought in the context of his times – the rise of Prussian militarism, anti-Semitism, Darwinian science, the “Youth” and emancipationist movements, as well as the “death of God” – Young emphasizes the decisive infl uence 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 Salomé 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.
Julian Young is Kenan Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, and Honary Research Fellow at the University of Tasmania.
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Featured in the 19 July 2010 New Zealand newsletter.
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Publication date : 2010-03-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Philosophy, Phenomenology & Existentialism