Nietzsche: A Critical Life (Phoenix Giants S.) - Softcover

Hayman, Ronald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857991370 ISBN 13: 9781857991376

Publisher: Orion, 1995

Synopsis

The author gives us a definitive reappraisal of the man whose life culminated inmadness when he was only 44.This book is a lucid & in-depth analysis of Nietzsche's personal and philosophical evolution,

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Synopsis:

One of the most important moral philosophers since Plato, and scarcely less important than Marx and Freud as a pioneer of modern thinking, Nietzsche was a genius whose ideas should be seen in the context of his life - a life of isolation and unremitting illness, culminating in madness when he was only 44. This text is an in-depth analysis of Neitzsche's personal and philosophical evolution, placing his writings within the context of his life. The book examines the mind and motivation of the man and reveals the continuity beneath discontinuities and apparent self-contradictions. From little-examined documents, the book sheds light upon areas of Nietzsche's life and work, providing a discussion of his illness and final madness, an account of his state of mind during the last 11 years of his life, and a look at his much misunderstood doctrines of the "Uebermensch", the will to power and eternal recurrence.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1857991370
• ISBN 13: 9781857991376
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 437