Thinker on Stage: Nietzsche's Materialism

by Peter Sloterdijk and Peter Sloterduk

Book Overview

Thinker on Stage is Peter Sloterdijk's audacious, empathetic reading of Friedrich Nietzche's first published work, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music. Intended originally as a postscript to a new edition of Nietzsche's book, Sloterdijk's text grew and became a book in its own right. Sloterdijk characterizes Nietzsche as a centaur-a philologist/musician, a philosopher/poet; the possessor of multiple talents inseparable from one another-who,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816617643
• ISBN13: 9780816617647
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"