Nietzsche: A Critical Life (Phoenix Giants S.)

by RonaldHayman (Author)

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  1995

  $3.27

  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.