Friedrich Nietzsche : A Philosophical Biography Hardback
by Julian (Wake Forest University, North Carolina) Young
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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 loath 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 emphasises the decisive influence of Plato and of Richard Wagner on Nietzsche's attempted reform of Western culture.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:676 pages, 32 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:08/03/2010
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- ISBN:9780521871174
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:676 pages, 32 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:08/03/2010
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- ISBN:9780521871174