The Great Philosophers: Nietzsche
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- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
11 January 2021
Summary
Nietzsche: The Madman Who Foresaw the Future
‘God is dead’, announced Nietzsche - before going on to abolish himself.
Envious contemporaries of Nietzsche ridiculed him as a mad man - and yet they came closer than they knew in characterising a philosopher in whose thought ambivalence approximated to disintegration of the self.
While the nineteenth century’s coherent, consistent systems of certainty came crashing down ingloriously at the very first tou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474616751 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474616755 |
| Author: | Ronald Hayman |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 11 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 62g |
| Dimensions: | 176mm x 110mm x 20mm |
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Ronald Hayman
Ronald Hayman is the celebrated biographer of Friedrich Nietzsche, Carl Jung, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marcel Proust, Sylvia Plath and Thomas Mann. After reading English at Cambridge he lived in Germany for two years, mainly to write. His play, Playing the Wife, was performed at the 1995 Chichester Festival with Derek Jacobi as Strindberg. Ronald Hayman died in 2019.
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