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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill NIETZSCHE THE RHAPSODIST Tell me, where is justice to be found which is love with seeing eyes Also sprach Zarathustra. A Sane and complete estimate of the life and philosophical writings of Friedrich Nietzsche has yet to be made in English. Mentally dead since 1889, his death, in a private retreat at Weimar in 1900, created little stir; yet we predict that this great, if rhapsodical thinker, will occupy a place in the pantheon of philosophers. Like Emerson, he formulated no system; he is a stimulus to thought, an antiseptic critic of all philosophies, religions, theologies, and moral systems, an intellectual rebel, a very Lucifer among ancient and modern thinkers. His life, barring his friendship with Wagner, and its sad conclusion, is rather barren of interest or incident. It was a fiery soul tragedy; outwardly the world saw a quiet, very reserved, almost timid man of cultivated bearing and disinclined to the pursuits of the ambitious. He was born at Rocken, near Liitzen, October 15, 1844. His father was a clergyman; indeed he descended from a long line of clerical ancestors, which possibly accounts for the austere strain in the man. This philosopher with a hammer, this demolisher of Antichrist, this writer who outraged all religious Europe, was a man of pure, upright life, a scholar, a gentleman, a poet. Taking up philology mainly as a makeshift, he occupied the chair of classical philology at the University of Basle. His weak eyesight ? his life long he was a sufferer from headaches, a weak stomach, and crabbed nerves ? drove him to a retirement, during which he busied himself with art and philosophy. The Birth of Tragedy in 1872 attracted Richard Wagner's attention, for here was a partisan not to be despised. In 1876 Nietzsche published Richard Wagner in B...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217881746 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217881742 |
| Weight | 0.52 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.36 In |
| List Price | $9.65 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 154 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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