Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography
- ISBN-10
- 1139487124
- ISBN-13
- 9781139487122
- Series
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Category
- Philosophy
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-03-08
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Julian Young
Description
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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