One of the pitfalls of writing a biography of a great philosopher is the temptation to reduce important ideas to mere psychology, an outgrowth of some fluke in the philosopher’s personal development.

Rudiger Safranski, , trans. from the German by Shelley Frisch. . Norton, $27.95 (384pp) ISBN 978-0-393-05008-0 This book is not a traditional philosopher's biography offering an even balance of life ...

Faber & Faber is to publish a "major" biography of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux, after winning the title in a seven-way auction. Mitzi Angel, publisher of Faber, bought UK ...

Giovanni Papini, journalist, essayist, novelist, writer, poet, literary critic and philosopher, was a controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twentieth century and the earliest and most ...

I am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche. By Sue Prideaux. Tim Duggan Books; 464 pages; $30. Faber & Faber; £25. “GOD IS DEAD!…And we have killed him!” Nietzsche put his most famous words into the ...

YALE UNIVERSITY; 384 Pages; $29.95 . he never gave friends an address but directed them to send their letters to the local post office, so that nobody knew exactly where he lived. He was particularly ...

Nietzsche was overlooked for most of his career. By the time his genius was discovered, his health had rapidly deteriorated. By Ray Monk The Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann told a story of how, in ...

The German philosopher has been adopted by the alt-right, but he hated antisemitism. He has been misappropriated and misread, argues his biographer Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx and Charles Darwin ...