"When for the first time I saw the evening rise with its red and gray softened in the Naples sky," Nietzsche wrote, "it was like a shiver, as though pitying myself for starting my life by being old, and the tears came to me and the feeling of having been saved at the very last second." Few would guess it from the author of such cheery works as The Birth of Tragedy, but as Paolo D'Iorio vividly recounts in this book, Nietzsche was enraptured by the warmth and sun of southern Europe. It was in Sorrento that Nietzsche finally matured as a thinker. Nietzsche first voyaged to the south in the autumn of 1876, upon the invitation of his friend, Malwida von Meysenbug. The trip was an immediate success, reviving Nietzsche's joyful and trusting sociability and fertilizing his creative spirit. Walking up and down the winding pathways of Sorrento and drawing on Nietzsche's personal notebooks, D'Iorio tells the compelling story of Nietzsche's metamorphosis beneath the Italian skies. It was here, D'Iorio shows, that Nietzsche broke intellectually with Wagner, where he decided to leave his post at B le, and where he drafted his first work of aphorisms, Human, All Too Human, which ushered in his mature era. A sun-soaked account of a philosopher with a notoriously overcast disposition, this book is a surprising travelogue through southern Italy and the history of philosophy alike.
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"This book is the detailed description of a metamorphosis, a break in the life and thought of Nietzsche, a 'crisis' from which the birth of the 'philosophy of the free spirit' was born."--Libération
"Philosopher Paolo D'Iorio restores step by step, document after document, nearly word for word, the genesis (and regenesis) of the Nietzschean transformation."--Philosophie Magazine
"An erudite book, filled with scents and colors, skillfully intertwining life and thought."--Le Vif/L'Express
"The metamorphosis of Nietzsche presented in simple, concrete, and jargon-free terms, in every way worthy of the philosopher of the free spirit."--Valeurs Actuelles
"Although this account of Nietzsche's travels is confined to the time he was in Sorrento, it is valuable for tracing the philosopher's intellectual thought. . . . D'Iorio includes many illustrations, pictures, and excerpts from Nietzsche's actual notebooks, which add authenticity to this portrait of Nietzsche as traveler, engaging friend, and philosopher. This is a pleasant, instructive read. Recommended."
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Paolo D'Iorio is director of the Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique at the cole normale sup rieure in Paris. His work on Nietzsche includes publications on the concept of eternal return in both its philosophical and cosmological aspects and on the significance of pre-Platonic philosophy for Nietzsche's thought. He is general editor of Nietzsche Source and contributes to the French and Italian editions of Nietzsche's complete works. Sylvia Mae Gorelick is a freelance translator and poet.
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