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Friedrich Nietzsche
H I Einsohn. Choice. Middletown: Oct 2005.Vol.43, Iss. 2; pg. 304, 1 pgs
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Author(s):
H I Einsohn
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Humanities
Publication title:
Choice. Middletown: Oct 2005. Vol. 43, Iss. 2; pg. 304, 1 pgs
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Periodical
ISSN/ISBN:
00094978
ProQuest document ID:
910336871
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225
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43-0861 B3316 2004-66270 MARC Cate, Curtis. Friedrich Nietzsche. Overlook Press, 2005. 689p bibl index afp ISBN 158567592X, $37.50
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43-0861 B3316 2004-66270 MARC Cate, Curtis. Friedrich Nietzsche. Overlook Press, 2005. 689p bibl index afp ISBN 158567592X, $37.50
Eminently readable and accessible, Gate's superb Nietzsche biography paints a vivid portrait of the brilliant thinker and stylist whose iconoclasm challenged the conventional wisdom of his age with an unprecedented focused ferocity matched only by the persistent debilitating virulence of the psychological and physical pain that tormented him. Writing for the layperson, independent scholar Cate, with a novelist's flair for exquisite storytelling, succeeds admirably in mapping the convoluted contours of the philosopher's life and work. For him, the core of Nietzsche's thinking resides in a "resistentialism" that proclaims that "it is not what assists Man that strengthens and ennobles him, but, quite the contrary, what resists his slothful inclinations and prejudices." Indeed, Cate sees Nietzsche as an eloquent, passionate, nomadic voice who strove valiantly, if at times stridently, to teach one how to live with purpose, civility, and joy in a world bereft of certainties and beneficent deities. More sinned against than sinning, Nietzsche, in Cato's perspicacious eyes, ultimately emerges as the undeserving victim of an unconscionable "intellectual betrayal" that culminates in the unspeakable horrors of the Germanic Third Reich. Photographs and useful cndnotcs enhance this splendid work. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels.-H. I. Einsohn, Middlesex Community College