Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography

"[SAFRANSKII PROVIDES AN IDEAL COMPANION. ... THE MOST USEFUL AND INFORMATIVE STUDY OF NIETZSCHE FOR THE GENERAL READER." —CHRIS ...

Nietzsche A Philosophical Biography Rüdiger Safranski TRANSI. ATED BY Shelley Frisch Granta Books London ...

Grauita Publications, 2/3 Hanover Yard, London NI 8BE First published in Great Britain by Granta Books 2002 Originally published ...

It is absolutely unnecessary, and not even desirable, for you to argue in my favor; on the contrary, a dose of curiosity, as if ...

Contents ...

- Translator's Preface - Reference Key to Nietzsche's Writings Overture: The Drama of Disillusionment I ...

Translator's Preface 1 HE GERMAN satirist Kurt Tucholsky once quipped: "Tell me what you need, and ITI supply you with the right ...

12 Translator's Preface In 1967, the Italian scholars Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari began publication of a groundbreaking ...

13 Translator's Preface include key passages because these passages had been expunged by Nietzsche's sister. In Ecce Homo, for e ...

14 Translator's Preface rials so assembled to their original fragmentary form.^4 In those instances in which Nietzsche passages ...

15 Translator's Preface Safranski vividly portrays Nietzsche's many attempts to try on identi- ties and masks. Nietzsche played ...

16 Translator's Preface editor at Norton, whose encouraging and enlightening e-mails always came at the right moments, and to hi ...

Reference Key to Nietzsche's Writings Collected Editions Cited in Text The following critical edition of Nietzsche's works is ci ...

18 Reference Key to Nietzsche's Writings BT Tie Birth of Tragedy CW The Case of Wagner D Daybreak DS "David Strauss" {Untimely M ...

OVERTURE The Drama of Disillusionment Music and the colossal power: A double passion · How to live when the music stops · Post s ...

20 Overture (1,456; WB § 5). It could be claimed that his entire philosophy was an endeavor to cling to life even when the music ...

The Drama of Disillusionment 21 gauze, staring at me expectantly. I was speechless at first, but then I went instinctively to a ...

22 Overture one's consciousness. The sobered ecstatic succumbs to a "will-nullifying frame of mind" (1,56). At this moment, he r ...

The Drama of Disillusionment 23 magic of its psychological and physiological enchantment. From this perspective, the way in whic ...

24 Overture refuge, becomes terrifying—the yawning abyss of being. When people are bored, they regard the moment as an empty pas ...