Friedrich Nietzsche : a philosophical biography / Julian Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Julian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 649 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Da Capo

Pforta

Bonn

Leipzig

Schopenhauer

Basel

Richard Wagner and the birth of The birth of tragedy

War and aftermath

Anal philology

Untimely meditations

Aimez-vous Brahms?

Auf Wiedersehen Bayreuth

Sorrento

Human, all-too-human

The wanderer and his shadow

Dawn

The gay science

The Salomé affair

Zarathustra

Nietzsche's circle of women

Beyond good and evil

Clearing the decks

The genealogy of morals

1888

Catastrophe

The rise and fall of The will to power

The end

Nietzsche's madness.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-21041-0

1-139-12402-1

1-283-29554-7

9786613295545

1-139-12206-1

1-139-11632-0

1-139-11196-5

1-139-12698-9

1-139-11415-8

1-139-10701-1

OCLC:

769341850