Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (560 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521871174 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 676 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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The specialist will learn where Young stands in relation to the voluminous scholarship on Nietzsche." - Christopher Cumo, Independent Scholar, Canadian Journal of History. The book will delight the general reader who knows little about Nietzsche's ideas. "Ranging across the events of Nietzsche's life, Julian Young combines biography with a detailed description of his philosophy
Jack Wonder said Not original work?. The author of this biography has lifted many paragraphs, with only cosmetic alterations, from Curtis Cate's biography of Nietzsche (available on the Amazon). Cate is well dead, so presumably he'd hoped that the plagiarism would never come to light. This is sad and worrying. The 'Omertà emanating from the 'academic community' is both disturbing and telling. Do all these 'scholarly oxen' do it? Regularly, just like that? And get professorial appointments as a reward?Also, this must be the CUP's most incompeten. Lol, plagiarism and hackery How is this even up for sale?As another reviewer notes, it's pretty much plagiarism of Curtis Cate's book.But as bad as that is, worse is the notion that Nietzsche ditched the idea of "will to power" -- about which he was scribbling until the collapse, without a scrap of evidence to prove Young's claim. Not in the books, the notebooks, nor the letters.Glad I found this in a library and didn't spend money on it. Authors like this are just hacks capitalizing on a big name. Pretty shameful.. Patrick Lysons said Genius vs Madness vs Biographer. Nietzsche is one of those philosophers whose work is a delight to read. Unlike the heavy-handed tomes of a Hume, Kant, or Hegel, Nietzsche's writing hand is a light touch with a powerful message. This biographer seems at times to lose sight of the philosopher behind the man. For the man is a contradiction. A man who went mad. "Genius" is not a word we can adequately define but its appearance beside madness has historically been determined many times. One key point in reading a biography of a genius is that one can
So wrote Nietzsche in 1888. From Booklist *Starred Review* I am the most terrible dynamite there is. In elucidating such complexities, Young challenges those who have tarred Nietzsche as a proto-Nazi, documenting his hatred for anti-Semitism and militarism. To be sure, readers will likely already know how this self-styled Antichrist waged war on Christianity to create cultural space for a boldly heroic egoism. Young chronicles the improbable story of how a fastidious professor of Greek philology became the most explosive intellectual force in Europe. They may not realize, though, that Nietzsche was not merely emancipating a few supermen from the Christian religion; rather, he was inviting the entire community to embrace a naturalistic new religion of human-glorifying arts. A biography as profound and disturbing as its subject. Still, readers must confront Nietzsche's un
A scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German philosophy, he is the author of nine books, most recently Nietzsche's Philosophy of Religion, and has been invited to speak at universities and conferences throughout the world. Educated at Cambridge University and the University of Pittsburgh, Juli