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Title:
Hiking with Nietzsche : on becoming who you are
Author:
Kaag, John J., 1979- author.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, [2018]
Physical Description:
255 pages : map ; 22 cm
Summary:
Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys--one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen years later, in radically different circumstances: he is now a husband and father, and his wife and small child are in tow. Kaag sets off for the Swiss peaks above Sils Maria where Nietzsche wrote his landmark work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both of Kaag's journeys are made in search of the wisdom at the core of Nietzsche's philosophy, yet they deliver him to radically different interpretations and, more crucially, revelations about the human condition.
Language:
English
Contents:
How the journey began -- Enduring companions -- The last man -- The eternal return -- Zarathustra in love -- On the mountain -- On genealogy -- Decadence and disgust -- The abysmal hotel -- The horse -- Behold, the man -- Steppenwolf -- Become who you are -- Epilogue: Morganstreich.
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ISBN:
9780374170011
Format :
Book