Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography - Hardcover

Young, Julian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521871174 ISBN 13: 9780521871174

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

"Ranging across the events of Nietzsche's life, Julian Young combines biography with a detailed description of his philosophy. The book will delight the general reader who knows little about Nietzsche's ideas. The specialist will learn where Young stands in relation to the voluminous scholarship on Nietzsche."
- Christopher Cumo, Independent Scholar, Canadian Journal of History

About this title

Book Description:

In this beautifully written account, Julian Young provides the most comprehensive biography available today of the life and philosophy of the nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Young deals with the many puzzles created by the conjunction of Nietzsche's personal history and his work: Why the son of a Lutheran pastor developed into the self-styled "Antichrist"; why this archetypical Prussian came to loath Bismarck's Prussia; and why this enemy of feminism preferred the company of feminist women. Setting Nietzsche's thought in the context of his times - the rise of Prussian militarism, anti-Semitism, Darwinian science, the "Youth" and emancipationist movements, as well as the "death of God" - Young emphasizes the decisive influence of Plato and of Richard Wagner on Nietzsche's attempted reform of Western culture. To listen to Nietzsche's compositions, visit: http://www.cambridge.org/us/nietzschemusic

About the Author:

Educated at Cambridge University and the University of Pittsburgh, Julian Young is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland and Honorary Research Professor at the University of Tasmania. A scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German philosophy, he is the author of nine books, most recently Nietzsche's Philosophy of Religion, and has been invited to speak at universities and conferences throughout the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521871174
• ISBN 13: 9780521871174
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 676