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Human, All Too Human
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Description for Human, All Too Human
Paperback. A series of 638 aphorisms and discourses on subjects ranging from art, arrogance and boredom to passion, science, vanity, women and youth. Nietzsche himself described this work as "the monument of a crisis", since it was written at a time of major upheaval in his life. Translator(s): Faber, Marion; Lehmann, Stephen. Num Pages: 320 pages, index. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
Written after Nietzsche had ended his friendship with Richard Wagner and had been forced to leave academic life through ill health, Human, All Too Human (1878) can be read as a monument to his personal crisis. It also marks the point when he matured as a philosopher, rejecting the German romanticism espoused by Wagner and Schopenhauer and instead returning to sources in the French Enlightenment. Here he sets out his unsettling views in a series of 638 stunning aphorisms - assessing subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity and women to youth. This work also ... Read more
Written after Nietzsche had ended his friendship with Richard Wagner and had been forced to leave academic life through ill health, Human, All Too Human (1878) can be read as a monument to his personal crisis. It also marks the point when he matured as a philosopher, rejecting the German romanticism espoused by Wagner and Schopenhauer and instead returning to sources in the French Enlightenment. Here he sets out his unsettling views in a series of 638 stunning aphorisms - assessing subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity and women to youth. This work also ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140446173
SKU
V9780140446173
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About Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche was born near Leipzig in 1844, the son of a Lutheran clergyman. At 24 he was appointed to the chair of classical philology at Basle University, where he stayed until forced by his health to retire in 1879. Here, he wrote all his literature, including Thus Spake Zarathustra, and developed his idea of the Superman. He became insane ... Read more
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