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Goethe: Life as a Work of Art (Paperback): Rudiger Safranski Goethe: Life as a Work of Art (Paperback)
Rudiger Safranski; Translated by David Dollenmayer
R597 Discovery Miles 5 970 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Here, Rudiger Safranski sets his sights on the writer considered the Shakespeare of German literature. Goethe (1749-1832) awakened a burgeoning German nation and the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Safranski scoured Goethe's oeuvre, relying on primary sources as well as his correspondence with contemporaries and their comments to one another, to produce an illuminating portrait of the avatar of the Romantic era. Set against the cultural and political turmoil of Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Goethe, who intersected with almost every great figure of his age, is thrillingly re-created here. As Safranski shows, Goethe's greatest creation, even in comparison to his masterpiece Faust, was his own life.

Martin Heidegger - Between Good and Evil (Paperback, New edition): Rudiger Safranski Martin Heidegger - Between Good and Evil (Paperback, New edition)
Rudiger Safranski; Translated by Ewald Osers
R841 R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Save R85 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

One of the century's greatest philosophers, without whom there would be no Sartre, no Foucault, no Frankfurt School, Martin Heidegger was also a man of great failures and flaws, a Faustus who made a pact with the devil of his time, Adolf Hitler. The story of Heidegger's life and philosophy, a quintessentially German story in which good and evil, brilliance and blindness are inextricably entwined and the passions and disasters of a whole century come into play, is told in this brilliant biography.

Heidegger grew up in Catholic Germany where, for a chance at pursuing a life of learning, he pledged himself to the priesthood. Soon he turned apostate and sought a university position, which set him on the path to becoming the star of German philosophy in the 1920s. Rudiger Safranski chronicles Heidegger's rise along with the thought he honed on the way, with its debt to Heraclitus, Plato, and Kant, and its tragic susceptibility to the conservatism that emerged out of the nightmare of Germany's loss in World War I. A chronicle of ideas and of personal commitments and betrayals, Safranski's biography combines clear accounts of the philosophy that won Heidegger eternal renown with the fascinating details of the loves and lapses that tripped up this powerful intellectual.

The best intellectual biography of Heidegger ever written and a best-seller in Germany, "Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil" does not shy away from full coverage of Heidegger's shameful transformation into a propagandist for the National Socialist regime; nor does it allow this aspect of his career to obscure his accomplishments. Written by a master of Heidegger's philosophy, the book is one of the best introductions to the thought and to the life and times of the greatest German philosopher of the century. "

Ein Meister aus Deutschland (German, Paperback): Rudiger Safranski Ein Meister aus Deutschland (German, Paperback)
Rudiger Safranski
R467 Discovery Miles 4 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Friedrich Schiller Oder Die Erfindung Des Deutschen Idealismus (German, Hardcover): Rudiger Safranski Friedrich Schiller Oder Die Erfindung Des Deutschen Idealismus (German, Hardcover)
Rudiger Safranski
R748 R677 Discovery Miles 6 770 Save R71 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Goethe  Kunstwerk des Lebens (German, Paperback): Rudiger Safranski Goethe Kunstwerk des Lebens (German, Paperback)
Rudiger Safranski
R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Nietzsche - A Philosophical Biography (Paperback): Rudiger Safranski Nietzsche - A Philosophical Biography (Paperback)
Rudiger Safranski; Translated by Shelley Frisch
R747 R660 Discovery Miles 6 600 Save R87 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A seminal biography, essential reading for anyone studying the philosophy of history's most enigmatic and fascinating thinker

No other modern philosopher has proved as influential as Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and none is as poorly understood. In the first new biography in decades, Rüdiger Safranski, one of the foremost living Nietzsche scholars, re-creates the anguished life of Nietzsche while simultaneously assessing the philosophical implications of his morality, religion, and art. Struggling to break away from the oppressive burdens of the past, Nietzsche invented a unique philosophy based on compulsive self-consciousness and constant self-revision. As groundbreaking as it will be long-lasting, this biography offers a brilliant, multifaceted portrait of a towering figure.

Nietzsche (German, Paperback): Rudiger Safranski Nietzsche (German, Paperback)
Rudiger Safranski
R403 Discovery Miles 4 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy (Paperback): Rudiger Safranski Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy (Paperback)
Rudiger Safranski; Translated by Ewald Osers
R1,621 Discovery Miles 16 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This richly detailed biography of a key figure in nineteenth-century philosophy pays equal attention to the life and to the work of Arthur Schopenhauer. Rudiger Safranski places this visionary skeptic in the context of his philosophical predecessors and contemporaries Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel-and explores the sources of his profound alienation from their "secularized religion of reason." He also provides a narrative of Schopenhauer's personal and family life that reads like a Romantic novel: the struggle to break free from a domineering father, the attempt to come to terms with his mother's literary and social success (she was a well-known writer and a member of Goethe's Weimar circle), the loneliness and despair when his major philosophical work, The World as Will and Representation, was ignored by the academy. Along the way Safranski portrays the rich culture of Goethe's Weimar, Hegel's Berlin, and other centers of German literary and intellectual life. When Schopenhauer first proposed his philosophy of "weeping and gnashing of teeth," during the heady "wild years" of Romantic idealism, it found few followers. After the disillusionments and failures of 1848, his work was rediscovered by philosophers and literary figures. Writers from Nietzsche to Samuel Beckett have responded to Schopenhauer's refusal to seek salvation through history. The first biography of Schopenhauer to appear in English in this century, Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy succeeds in bringing to life an intriguing figure in philosophy and the intellectual battles of his time, whose consequences still shape our world.

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