YALE UNIVERSITY; 384 Pages; $29.95 . he never gave friends an address but directed them to send their letters to the local post office, so that nobody knew exactly where he lived. He was particularly ...

Giovanni Papini, journalist, essayist, novelist, writer, poet, literary critic and philosopher, was a controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twentieth century and the earliest and most ...

One of the pitfalls of writing a biography of a great philosopher is the temptation to reduce important ideas to mere psychology, an outgrowth of some fluke in the philosopher’s personal development.

Faber & Faber is to publish a "major" biography of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux, after winning the title in a seven-way auction. Mitzi Angel, publisher of Faber, bought UK ...

“I am not a man, I am dynamite!” Friedrich Nietzsche is famous for this kind of bombast, but most of his works are unassuming in tone, and his sentences are always plain, direct and clear as a bell.

Nietzsche: a philologist and philosopher, a syphilitic madman, an immoralist. But a composer? Why, yes, as it turns out: in 1887, he wrote, “There has never been a philosopher who has been in his ...

On the morning of January 3rd, 1889 a half-blind German professor, sporting a luxurious moustache, left his lodgings on the third floor of Via Carlo Alberto 6 in Turin. He was used to taking his daily ...

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and ...

I am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche. By Sue Prideaux. Tim Duggan Books; 464 pages; $30. Faber & Faber; £25. “GOD IS DEAD!…And we have killed him!” Nietzsche put his most famous words into the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Friedrich Nietzsche, the philosopher thought to have died of syphilis, was the victim of a posthumous smear campaign by anti-Nazis, new ...