Human All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits

The book is Nietzsches first in the aphoristic style that would come to dominate his writings discussing a variety of concepts in short paragraphs or sayings. Reflecting an admiration of Voltaire as a free thinker but also a break in his friendship with composer Richard Wagner two years earlier.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philologist philosopher cultural critic poet and composer. He wrote several critical texts on religion morality contemporary culture philosophy and science displaying a fondness for metaphor irony and aphorism. He was twenty four when he was appointed to the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel the youngest individual to have held this position.