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Nietzsche and Ree - A Star Friendship (Paperback, New edition)
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Nietzsche and Ree - A Star Friendship (Paperback, New edition)
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During years of close friendship, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
and Paul Ree (1849-1901) shared ideas and developed a new and
original approach to philosophy and ethics. The course of their
partnership, from its origins in shared hopes to its ending in a
painful breakdown of personal relations, is the subject of this
book.
The full story has not been told before. Some of its biographical
aspects - especially the three-sided relationship involving the
young Lou Salome which had severe emotional consequences for
Nietzsche - have been known. Yet many personal details are
presented here for the first time. The philosophical account is
equally absorbing, showing how this collaboration was a crucial
stage on Nietzsche's way toward his most original and radical
contributions to philosophy.
'Rd'eealism' was the label Nietzsche gave to Ree's naturalistic
doctrine, which drew on the evolutionary theory of natural
selection to explain the moral concepts of good, evil, conscience
and justice. Just as importantly, Ree wrote in a cool, highly
disciplined style, very different from most German writers of the
time. Both aspects of his work made a strong impact on Nietzsche,
who developed this project in his own way in a series of works
starting with Human, All-Too-Human. Yet he eventually came to
criticise and reject 'Reealism' as inadequate to the task of a
revaluation of values, and replaced the 'historical approach' with
his own genealogy of morality.
In a strikingly poetic passage in The Gay Science, Nietzsche
describes a 'star friendship': the brief meeting of two stars whose
paths cross and then diverge forever, perhaps as part of some
pattern beyond their knowledge. This bookgives the 'star
friendship' of Nietzsche and Ree the treatment it has always
needed. In doing so, it brings to light fresh aspects of one of the
most important of modern thinkers.
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