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- Penn State University Press
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- Copyright © 2006 by The Pennsylvania State University.
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- 1538-4594
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Abstract
Rüdiger Safranski. Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography, trans. Shelly Frisch. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2002. 412 pp. STEVEN V. HICKS AND ALAN ROSENBERG In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche writes that "gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir" (BGE, § 6).1 In a letter to Brandes dated 10 April 1888, Nietzsche also writes, "the person who does not find himself addressed personally by [my] work will probably have nothing more to do with me."2 Perhaps more than any other philosopher of the modern period, Nietzsche invites the kind of "highly personal" Biographie seines Denkens that Rüdiger Safranski offers in his crisply written Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography.As the translator, Shelly Frisch rightly notes in her preface to the English edition, that "Safranski excels at the art of philosophical narration" (14). With a graceful and eloquent narrative, he weaves together "subtle, yet riveting, descriptions of the major junctures in Nietzsche's life that served to mark turning points in his [Nietzsche's] philosophical orientation" (14). Moreover, Safranski brings "the facts of [Nietzsche's] life" to bear on the
Journal
The Journal of Nietzsche Studies – Penn State University Press
Published: Jun 14, 2006