The Times Biography of the Year
Winner of the Hawthornden Prize 2019
Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Prize 2019
Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019
Longlisted for the Cundhill History Prize 2019
Friedrich Nietzsche's work blasted the foundation of western thinking. The death of God, the Übermensch, and the slave morality permeate our culture, high and low, and yet he is one of history's most misunderstood philosophers.
Nietzsche himself thought that all philosophy was autobiographical and in this myth-shattering book, Sue Prideaux brings readers into the world of a brilliant, eccentric and deeply troubled man, illuminating the events and people that shaped his life and work. From his placid, devoutly Christian upbringing, overshadowed by the mysterious death of his father, through his lonely philosophising on high mountains, to the horror and pathos of his final descent into madness, Prideaux explores Nietzsche's intellectual, emotional and spiritual life with insight and sensitivity.
The book is studded with unforgettable portraits of the people who were most important to him, including Richard and Cosima Wagner, Lou Salomé - the femme fatale who broke his heart - and his rabidly nationalist and anti-Semitic sister Elizabeth, who betrayed him by manipulating his texts and putting them to infinite misuse at the hands of the Nazis. Today, Nietzsche's ideas continue to be adopted by both the left and the right.
I Am Dynamite! is the essential biography for anyone seeking to understand the philosopher who foresaw - and sought solutions to - our own troubled times.
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Historical BiographiesTable of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Acknowledgements
- 1: A Musical Evening
- 2: Our German Athens
- 3: Become What You Are
- 4: Naxos
- 5: The Birth of Tragedy
- 6: Poison Cottage
- 7: Concept-quake
- 8: The Last Disciple and the First Disciple
- 9: Free and Not So Free Spirits
- 10: Human, All Too Human
- 11: The Wanderer and His Shadow
- 12: Philosophy and Eros
- 13: The Philosopher’s Apprentice
- 14: My Father Wagner Is Dead. My Son Zarathustra Is Born
- 15: Only Where There Are Graves Are There Resurrections
- 16: He Ambushed Me!
- 17: Declaiming into the Void
- 18: Llamaland
- 19: I Am Dynamite!
- 20: Twilight in Turin
- 21: The Cave Minotaur
- 22: The Empty Occupant of Furnished Rooms
- Aphorisms
- Chronology
- Select Bibliography
- Quotations Acknowledgements
- Index
- Plates
- About the Author
- Also by the Author
- Copyright
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