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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Julian Young is a well-known scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German philosophy. I put six questions to him about his new book, Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography. 1. Most ...

“I am not a man, I am dynamite!” Friedrich Nietzsche is famous for this kind of bombast, but most of his works are unassuming in tone, and his sentences are always plain, direct and clear as a bell.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. On January 3 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche left his lodgings on the Piazza Carlo Alberto in Turin. Seeing a carriage ...

On the morning of January 3rd, 1889 a half-blind German professor, sporting a luxurious moustache, left his lodgings on the third floor of Via Carlo Alberto 6 in Turin. He was used to taking his daily ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Friedrich Nietzsche, the philosopher thought to have died of syphilis, was the victim of a posthumous smear campaign by anti-Nazis, new ...