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Nietzsche contra Wagner; Out of the Files of a Psychologist is a critical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche, composed of selections he chose from among his earlier works. The selections are assembled in this essay in order to focus on Nietzsche's thoughts about the composer Richard Wagner. As he says in the preface, when the selections are read "one ...
Sep 12, 2023 · Abstract. Philosopher, educator, and prolific writer Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a critic of nineteenth-century German culture and, concomitantly, the educational system of the time. Informed by contemporaries such as Schopenhauer and Wagner, as well as the earlier writings of Aristotle, Nietzsche saw his time’s educational system ...
Biography. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844, on the forty-ninth birthday of his namesake, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, in the small German village of Röcken bei Lützen, southwest of Leipzig. Nietzsche was descended from Lutheran ministers; his paternal grandfather, Friedrich August Ludwig Nietzsche, was a ...
May 21, 2018 · NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH (1844–1900), German philosopher. With his declaration that "God is dead" and his ideal of the superman, which in the 1930s dominated Nazi thought in Germany but also flew into the United States as the comic-strip figure "Man of Steel," Friedrich Nietzsche is probably the most recognizable modern philosopher.
Aug 13, 1998 · The Last Days of Nietzsche. John Banville. August 13, 1998 issue. Reviewed: Nietzsche in Turin: An Intimate Biography. by Lesley Chamberlain. Picador, 256 pp., $23.00. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born in Röcken, in Prussian Saxony, in 1844. His father and grandfather were parsons, and his mother, the enigmatic Franziska, to whose bosom ...
Friedrich Nietzsche, in circa 1875. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) developed his philosophy during the late 19th century. He owed the awakening of his philosophical interest to reading Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Representation, 1819, revised 1844) and said that Schopenhauer was one of the few thinkers that he respected, dedicating to him ...
Influence and reception of Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche in 1869. Friedrich Nietzsche 's influence and reception varied widely and may be roughly divided into various chronological periods. Reactions were anything but uniform, and proponents of various ideologies attempted to appropriate his work quite early.
