"For even if I should be a bad German," the peripatetic philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote to his mother in 1886, "I am at all
events a very good European." This heavily illustrated volume
marshals considerable evidence to demonstrate just how accurate
that statement was: For much of his life, Nietzsche wandered
restlessly around Europe, preferring to keep his distance from a
Germany he found suffocatingly oppressive and second-rate. But his
wanderings were motivated by something more than flight.
Philosopher Krell (DePaul Univ.) and photographer Bates argue
persuasively that Nietzsche had a strong, persistent appetite for
natural and man-made beauty, and that he sought out sites as
different as the Alps and the Mediterranean to stimulate his
creative powers. Relying heavily on excerpts from Nietzsche's
letters, journals, and published works, and on the recollections of
friends and colleagues, and on both period and contemporary
photographs of everything from Nietzsche's various rooms and homes
to street scenes in Nice, Genoa, and Turin (among the many places
Nietzsche visited), the authors do make a convincing case for
viewing Nietzsche as a true cosmopolitan and as a writer sensitive
to a sense of place. But readers who don't have a special interest
in the philosopher are likely to find this too narrow (and, at
times, too much of a case of special pleading for a kinder, gentler
Nietzsche) to be of use. (Kirkus Reviews)
Friedrich Nietzsche was acutely sensitive to place: to the taste of
sea air, to the sweep of wind across the coast, to the narrow
confines of medieval walls or the tumbling breadth of an Alpine
vista framed by the window near his writing desk. He was convinced
that the effects of the environment, climate and terrain on one's
life and thought were both tangible and profound. This book
explores, in text and photographs, Nietzsche's Epicurean
appreciation of the cities and landscapes in which he worked and
their influence on his thought. From Saxony to the Swiss Alps, from
the Riviera to the Dolomites of Recoaro, the reader is guided, in
word and image, through the course of Nietzsche's philosophical
thought and his continental wanderings, along the painful path from
genius to madness. Translations of the philosopher's writings on
his work sites are included alongside photographs of the sites
themselves. In essence, the reader is invited to share with
Nietzsche, through his voice and vision, his own experience of
these extraordinary places.
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