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Nietzsche in Turin: An Intimate Biography
Nietzsche in Turin An Intimate Biography Author:Lesley Chamberlain Friedrich Nietzsche is among the world's most famous philosophers whose words have lent his life the air of legend. His books not only have influenced the course of philosophy and provided a foundation for the twentieth-century existentialist movement but also have come to be associated - perhaps falsely - with Hitler's Nazism. During 1888 in T... more »urin, Italy, Nietzsche wrote three of his most important works. He emerges here as a gentle, tortured man, dominated by his rigorous mind and his love of music, and soothed by the strangely otherworldly city of Turin. Part travel literature and part biography, Nietzsche in Turin is a portrait of the majestic baroque city in which Nietzsche spent the last rational year of his life before his tragic breakdown and subsequent death. "This is simply the best book I have read in a very long time on the greatest philosopher of the modern age. (The Irish Times)« less