Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power: A Biography of Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (International Nietzsche Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (661 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 025207467X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Very interesting, if you're interested in this stuff! Alan Bloom once wrote that both Communism and Naziism are both based on Nietzsche's dictum, "The end justifies the means".This is an interesting book, because so many deny the Nietzsche-Nazi connection. I had read that Hitler gave Mussolini copies of Nietzshe's books for the latter's 60th birthday in 19Very interesting, if you're interested in this stuff! Robert V. Rose, retired education researcher Alan Bloom once wrote that both Communism and Naziism are both based on Nietzsche's dictum, "The end justifies the means".This is an interesting book, because so many deny the Nietzsche-Nazi connection. I had read that Hitler gave Mussolini copies of Nietzshe's books for the latter's 60th birthday in 1943, but I was also under the false impression that Nietzsche had grown up in a bordello, and died of cerebral. 3, but I was also under the false impression that Nietzsche had grown up in a bordello, and died of cerebral. Five Stars Bill Delphenich All good!. "poor Nora" according to flapping in traumatized laughter puddle. Thirty pages of fiction by Nietzsche's sister at the end of this biography are like reading the novel Invisible by Paul Auster. If you really want a look at the inner lives of people who manage to make a few connections, only to have time twist things around like economics when the invisible hand has its fingers crossed, the situations pictured in a rapidly aging style of life with no televisions to entertain
"A pleasure to read. Diethe corrects the superficiality that has characterized prior treatment of Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, offering a nuanced explanation of her perspective and motivations."--Kathleen Higgins, author of Comic Relief, Nietzsche's Gay Science
Diethe concludes by detailing Förster-Nietzsche's brief marriage and her subsequent colonial venture in Paraguay, maintaining that her sporadic anti-Semitism was, like most things in her life, an expedient tool for cultivating personal success and status.A volume in the series International Nietzsche Studies, edited by Richard Schacht. The book also examines their family dynamics, Nietzsche's dismissal of his sister's early writing career, and the effects of limited education on intelligent women. In Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power, Carol Diethe contends that Förster-Nietzsche's own will to power and her desire to place herself--not her brother--at the center of cultural life in Germany are centrally responsible for Nietzsche's reputation as a belligerent and proto-Fascist thinker.Offering a new look at Nietzsche's sister from a feminist perspective, this spirited and erudite biography examines why Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche recklessly consorted with anti-Semites, from her own husband to Hitler himself, out of convenience and a desire for re