Nietzsche: A Philosophical BiographyNo other modern philosopher has proved as influential as Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and none is as poorly understood. In the first new biography in decades, Rüdiger Safranski, one of the foremost living Nietzsche scholars, re-creates the anguished life of Nietzsche while simultaneously assessing the philosophical implications of his morality, religion, and art. Struggling to break away from the oppressive burdens of the past, Nietzsche invented a unique philosophy based on compulsive self-consciousness and constant self-revision. As groundbreaking as it will be long-lasting, this biography offers a brilliant, multifaceted portrait of a towering figure. |
Contents
Translators Preface | 11 |
Reference Key to Nietzsches Writings | 17 |
The Drama of Disillusionment | 19 |
Inventing a Life | 25 |
Schopenhauer and the Will to Style | 42 |
The Birth of The Birth of Tragedy | 59 |
Redemption through Art | 85 |
Untimely Meditations | 108 |
Daybreak and Grand Inspiration | 201 |
Eternal Recurrence and The Gay Science | 223 |
Lou Salomé and the Quest for Intimacy | 245 |
Setting the Stage for The Will to Power | 276 |
The Finale in Turin | 304 |
Europe Discovers Nietzsche | 317 |
Chronicle of Nietzsches Life | 351 |
Selected List of English Translations of Nietzsches Works | 373 |
The Panacea of Knowledge | 133 |
Human All Too Human | 155 |
The Bicameral System of Culture | 178 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
aesthetic Apollonian artistic aware Basel Bayreuth Bayreuth Festival become Bertram Birth of Tragedy Christianity consciousness considered Cosima creative culture dance Daybreak death Dionysian wisdom Dionysus doctrine drama Ecce Homo essay essence eternal recurrence everything existence experience feeling force Foucault Franz Overbeck freedom Friedrich Gay Science Genealogy of Morals German goal Greek Heidegger Human idea imagine individual inspiration instinct knowledge later live Malwida Malwida von Meysenbug mankind meaning metaphysical mind myth nature Naumburg Nietzsche called Nietzsche wrote Nietzsche's once Overbeck passion pathos Paul Rée Peter Gast Pforta philology philosophy pleasure reality reason Rée religion religious remain Richard Wagner Rohde Salomé Schopenhauer Schopenhauer's sense Sils-Maria sister social Socrates soul sphere spirit stage Stirner things thinking thought tion tragic transcendence Translated truth turn Übermensch ultimately Untimely Meditation vision wanted whole writing young Nietzsche Zarathustra