Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography (Paperback)

Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography By Rüdiger Safranski, Shelley Frisch, Ph.D. (Translated by) Cover Image

Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography (Paperback)

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A seminal biography, essential reading for anyone studying the philosophy of history's most enigmatic and fascinating thinker.


No other modern philosopher has proved as influential as Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and none is as poorly understood. In the first new biography in decades, Rüdiger Safranski, one of the foremost living Nietzsche scholars, re-creates the anguished life of Nietzsche while simultaneously assessing the philosophical implications of his morality, religion, and art. Struggling to break away from the oppressive burdens of the past, Nietzsche invented a unique philosophy based on compulsive self-consciousness and constant self-revision. As groundbreaking as it will be long-lasting, this biography offers a brilliant, multifaceted portrait of a towering figure.
Rüdiger Safranski is a German philosopher and writer, and the author of biographies of Friedrich Schiller, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Martin Heidegger. He lives in Berlin.

Shelley Frisch is the prize-winning translator of biographies of Nietzsche, Einstein, and Kafka. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Product Details ISBN: 9780393323801
ISBN-10: 0393323803
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: January 17th, 2003
Pages: 414
Language: English
Series: Philosophical Biography