Book reviews: Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography: Master and megalomaniac

From: Scotland on Sunday | Date: May 26, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography

Rudiger Safranski

Granta, 25 pounds

NIETZSCHE once made a list of his favourite things. Sex came third, behind listening to Wagner and improvising at the piano. Nietzsche was a frequent guest at Wagner's home, and an eager propagandist for him before their friendship turned sour. And like Wagner, Nietzsche has come to be indelibly tainted with the spectre of Nazism. Safranski's absorbing book attempts to unravel Nietzsche's ideas; and if the attempt ultimately fails, it is perhaps because the philosophical knots that Nietzsche got himself into are ...

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