Description
| Product ID: | 9780872203587 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Hackett Classics |
| Title: | Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Authors: | Author: Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Page Count: | 388 |
| Subjects: | Biography: general, Biography: general, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A collection of over two hundred of Nietzsche's letters. It offers a representative body of correspondence on subjects of main concern to him - philosophy, history, morals, music and literature. It also includes letters of biographical interest which, in Middleton's words, 'mark the stresses and turnings of his life'. This collection of more than two hundred of Nietzsche''s letters offers a representative body of correspondence on subjects of main concern to him--philosophy, history, morals, music and literature. Also included are letters of biographical interest which, in Middleton''s words, mark the stresses and turnings of his life. Among the addressees are Richard Wagner, Erwin Rohde, Jacob Burkhardt, Lou Salome, his mother, and his sister Elisabeth. The annihilating split in Nietzsche''s personality that has been associated with his collapse on a street in Turin in 1889 is described in a moving letter from Franz Overbeck which forms the Epilogue. Index. |
| Imprint Name: | Hackett Publishing Co, Inc |
| Publisher Name: | Hackett Publishing Co, Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1996-12-15 |