Human All Too Human

A series of 638 aphorisms and discourses on subjects ranging from art arrogance and boredom to passion science vanity women and youth.Nietzsche himself described this work as the monument of a crisis since it was written at a time of major upheaval in his life.|Friedrich Nietzsche was born near Leipzig in 1844 the son of a Lutheran clergymanAt 24 he was appointed to the chair of classical philology at Basle University where he stayed until forced by his health to retire in 1879Here he wrote all his literature including Thus Spake Zarathustra and developed his idea of the SupermanHe became insane in 1889 and remained so until his death in 1900.Marion Faber is Professor German at Swarthmore College PennsylvaniaHer work includes publications on Kafka Nietzsche and Weimar film.|Written after Nietzsche had ended his friendship with Richard Wagner and had been forced to leave academic life through ill health Human All Too Human (1878) can be read as a monument to his personal crisisIt also marks the point when he matured as a philosopher rejecting the German romanticism espoused by Wagner and Schopenhauer and instead returning to sources in the French EnlightenmentHere he sets out his unsettling views in a series of 638 stunning aphorisms - assessing subjects ranging from art to arrogance boredom to passion science to vanity and women to youthThis work also contains the seeds of concepts crucial to Nietzsche's later philosophy such as the will to power and the need to transcend conventional Christian moralityThe result is one of the cornerstones of his life's work.|A series of 638 aphorisms and discourses on subjects ranging from art arrogance and boredom to passion science vanity women and youth. Nietzsche himself described this work as the monument of a crisis since it was written at a time of major up...|Friedrich Nietzsche was born near Leipzig in 1844 the son of a Lutheran clergyman. At 24 he was appointed to the chair of classical philology at Basle University where he stayed until forced by his health to retire in 1879. Here he wrote all his literature including Thus Spake Zarathustra and developed his idea of the Superman. He became insane in 1889 and remained so until his death in 1900.Marion Faber is Professor German at Swarthmore College Pennsylvania. Her work includes publications on Kafka Nietzsche and Weimar film.|Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was born near Leipzig in 1844. When he was only twenty-four he was appointed to the chair of classical philology at Basel University. Works published in the 1880s include The Gay Science Thus Spoke Zarathustra Beyond Good and Evil On the Genealogy of Morals Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist. In January 1889 Nietzsche collapsed on a street in Turin and was subsequently institutionalized spending the rest of his life in a condition of mental and physical paralysis. Works published after his death in 1900 include Will to Power based on his notebooks and Ecce Homo his autobiography.|A series of 638 aphorisms and discourses on subjects ranging from art arrogance and boredom to passion science vanity women and youth. Nietzsche himself described this work as the monument of a crisis since it was written at a time of major upheaval in his life.