Nietzsche - Hardcover

Salome, Lou

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ISBN 10: 0933806310 ISBN 13: 9780933806313

Publisher: Black Swan Books, 1988

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This English translation of Friedrich Nietzsche in seinen Werken offers a rare, intimate view of the philosopher by Lou Salom, a free-thinking, Russian-born intellectual to whom Nietzsche proposed marriage at only their second meeting. Published in 1894 as its subject languished in madness, Salom's book rode the crest of a surge of interest in Nietzsche's iconoclastic philosophy. She discusses his writings and such biographical events as his break with Wagner, attempting to ferret out the man in the midst of his works. Salom's provocative conclusion - that Nietzsche's madness was the inevitable result of his philosophical views - generated considerable controversy. Nietzsche's sister, Elisabeth Frster-Nietzsche, dismissed the book as a work of fantasy. Yet the philosopher's longtime acquaintance Erwin Rohde wrote, "Nothing better or more deeply experienced or perceived has ever been written about Nietzsche." Siegfried Mandel's extensive introduction examines the circumstances that brought Lou Salom and Nietzsche together and the ideological conflicts that drove them apart.

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About the Author:

Siegfried Mandel, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Univer-sity of Colorado, is the author of "Rainer Maria Rilke "and editor of "Contemporary European Novelists."
Lou Andreas-SalomE (1861-1937) was a Russian-born writer and psychoanalyst. Throughout her life, she developed friendships with Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Sigmund Freud, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Some of her numerous works include Ibsen's Heroines, The Human Family, Friedrich Nietzsche in His Work, My Thanks to Freud, and Looking Back.

Language Notes:

Text: English, German (translation)

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