Becoming Zarathustra An engaging review of a ne…
Becoming Zarathustra
An engaging review of a new biography of Nietzsche by R�diger Safranski, the writer of a recommended biography of Heidegger. The reviewer, Thomas Nagel, says �it concentrates on the temporal course of Nietzsche’s inner life and his self-transformation through thought and writing.� Which sounds promising. Then he says Safranski �does not give special emphasis to the topics that are of most interest to contemporary academic philosophy - truth, objectivity, skepticism about morality�. Which sounds even better! And if I needed any more encouragement, he writes that the book �ends with the image of Caspar David Friedrich’s painting The Monk by the Sea: the individual in the face of immensity.� Terrific. In the postmodern era, for sea read bookshelf.
Other Splinters posts of interest:
- How Nietzsche Found Jesus
- Sunday Night Nietzsche
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