Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche (Hackett Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (983 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0872203581 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 388 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: German
Index.. Among the addressees are Richard Wagner, Erwin Rohde, Jacob Burkhardt, Lou Salome, his mother, and his sister Elisabeth. This collection of more than two hundred of Nietzsche's letters offers a representative body of correspondence on subjects of main concern to him--philosophy, history, morals, music and literature. Also included are letters of biographical interest which, in Middleton's words, mark the stresses and turnings of his life. The annihilating split in Nietzsche's personality that has been associated with his collapse on a street in Turin in 1889 is described in a moving letter from Franz Overbeck which forms the Epilogue
Lee Tasey said Readers would also like "Jenna's Flaw". This collection of two hundred letters offers another fascinating glimpse into Nietzsche's world, a world he doesn't always reveal in his philosophical works. Here we see Nietzsche's good manners on display, his odd sense of humor, his writing process, his excitement at finishing a book as well as his growing isolation and creeping insanity. The seeds of many of his philosophical ideas can also be seen in these letter. What a strange but brilliant fellow This book is real fun to have, and shows a side of Nietzsche that is hard to come across in his formal works and the countless biographies. You can read first-hand the conflicts with his sister's anti-semitic husband, read his own giddyness about finishing a new book, and follow his decline into a state of insanity (during which he wrote the strangest letters of all). His wierd sense of humor is much more visible in h. "Interesting reading" according to Dr. Lee D. Carlson. If you want to gain insight into Nietzsche's thinking outside of his usual philosophical writings, or follow his chain of thought throughtout his life, this collection of letters is somewhat helpful, but he does not seem to engage in the manner in which he does in his formal philosophical works. One of the features I found surprising in his letters is the courtesy he showed to his recipients. It is evident that Nietzs
His works include Beyond Good and Evil, Ecce Homo, Human, All Too Human, and Thus Spake Zarathustra." . Friedrich Nietzsche was, arguably, the most important philosopher of the 19th century