Nietzsche: A Play

ISBN-13: 9781518816017 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 54 str.

Acie Cargill

Opis

Friedrich Nietzsche is probably the most read philosopher of the last 100 years and probably the least understood. I'm one of the people who tried to read some of his books and, to say the least, I had a very difficult time of it. I have tried to create a one hour play based on his life and thought. One hour can really be merely a taste of Nietzsche. He is very complex and he never stopped thinking and writing. Lot of material and a lot of ideas. Most of the material written about Nietzsche is done by professional philosophers or academic researchers. I am not one of those. I am a writer and I have written here a short play about him and I used excerpts from his personal life and also some of his own writings. Nietzsche's legacy was abused by Nazi propagandists. They used his name because he was famous in Germany as the greatest intellect of his time, he was very little understood, he was dead, and his sister Elisabeth, who controlled his writings, was very pro-Nazi., and of course, anti-Semitic. For example, Nietzsche wrote about "Will to Power" referring to a person striving for a better life. Hitler quoted it from Nietzsche, but used it to propose militaristic expansion of the Third Reich and destruction of Judaism. Nietzsche had a lifelong incestuous relationship with Elisabeth and was true to her except for a period when he was involved with Lou Salome in a menage-a-trois along with his philosopher friend, Paul Ree. Another important figure in Friedrich's life was genius composer Richard Wagner. I hope the reader of this play, or hopefully someone watching it being presented, will get some appreciation of the life of this super intellectual. Here is a short introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche. one of the central figures in European philosophical thought.