Friedrich Nietzsche

by Curtis Cate

Book Overview

Physically handicapped by weak eyesight, violent headaches and bouts of nausea, this paradoxical thinker fashioned a philosophy, which made short shrift of self-pity and the ostentatious display of compassion. The son of a Lutheran clergyman, whom he adored, he became a fearless agnostic who proclaimed, in Thus Spake Zarathustra that "God is dead " Of modest bourgeois origins, he detested middle-class conformity, and turned to an uncompromising cult...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585677019
• ISBN13: 9781585677016
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Abrams, Inc.
• Length: 689 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher