Undying

by Todd Gitlin

Book Overview

November 2004: George W. Bush is re-elected. Five days later, Alan Meister, a New York professor of philosophy, is diagnosed with lymphoma--not that he can prove the two are connected. While coping with the rigors of chemotherapy, Alan begins work on a long-postponed book titled The Health of a Sick Man, arguing that the core of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical thought was a decades-long attempt to cope with his lifelong incapacities--his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582436460
• ISBN13: 9781582436463
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Catapult
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.1"