Friedrich Nietzsche : A Biography

ISBN-13: 9780712673037 / Angielski

Curtis Cate

Opis

No modern philosopher has been more maligned and misunderstood or more cynically exploited than Friedrich Nietzsche. Many of his aphorisms, highly personal statements of his likes and dislikes, are puzzling. They become truly comprehensible only within the context of his restless life. This biography reveals this context.

Recenzje

A warmly intelligent introduction to Nietzsche William T. Vollmann New York Time Book Review

O autorze

Born of American parents in Paris, Curtis Cate was educated in France, England, and the United States. He is the holder of three university degrees - from Harvard (History), the -cole des Langues Orientales, Paris (Russian), and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read Politics and Economics and studied English and German philosophy with Harry Weldon. After serving as a correspondent in the Middle East, he joined the staff of the Atlantic Monthly, and was for eight years its European Editor in Paris. His published works include three highly acclaimed biographies (of Antoine de Saint-Exup-ry, George Sand, and Andr- Malraux), a harrowing description of Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812, and The Ides of August, which he wrote to condemn the building of the Berlin Wall in August 1961. This is his seventh book.