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  • 16 Aug 2017
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    The Lives of the Philosophers – Why They Matter

    The Lives of the Philosophers, a series published by Cambridge University Press, shows why biography is important and what it can tell us about the work of its various subjects. Sensitively charting the interplay between an author’s life and text, each book implicitly challenges those thinkers who view biographies as secondary or even irrelevant to […]

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  • 25 Aug 2016
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    Fascinating Nietzsche

    When I began my biography of Nietzsche’s youth, The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche, I expected eventually to dislike my subject. Biographers frequently start by admiring their protagonists, then become hostile. Why should I be different? My experience, however, was the opposite. I found a great deal repellent in Nietzsche at the beginning, then decided that […]

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  • 23 Aug 2016
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    Nietzsche’s early years in pictures

    1861 This photograph, taken for Confirmation, was probably the first portrait of himself that Nietzsche had ever seen. Fundamentally pleased with it, he nonetheless acknowledged its homelier aspects: “My stance is hunched, my feet somewhat crooked, and my hand looks like a dumpling.”   1862 In this image Nietzsche seems quite a different person from […]

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  • 5 Jul 2016
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    Who Were the People Who Shaped Friedrich Nietzsche?

    Daniel Blue’s The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche: The Quest for Identity 1844-1869  explores the famed German philosopher’s first formative 24 years of life. Browse through this interactive family tree to learn about Nietzsche’s assorted relatives. To learn more about each individual relatives, click on each family member’s square.

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  • 9 Mar 2016
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    The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche – An interview with author Daniel Blue

    We talk to Daniel Blue, author of a major new biography of German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, that radically reconceives Nietzsche's youth and reveals the importance of autobiography and environment to his early development.

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