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- Nietzsche's Kisses: A Novel
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
summary
Nietzsche's Kisses is the story of Friedrich Nietzsche's last mad night on earth. Locked in a small room on the top floor of a house in Weimar, the most radical and influential of nineteenth-century German philosophers hovers between dream and wakefulness, memory and hallucination, the first person, second, and third, past and present, reliving his brief love affair with feminist Lou Salome, his stormy association with Richard Wagner, and his conflicted relationship with Lisbeth, his radibly anti-Semitic sister. Here is an authoritative portrait of the Nietzsche we know and the Nietzsche we don't. His titantic ego, suppressed, squelched, and sealed up within him, all but unknown to his acquaintances, creates a maniacal and raging giant inside his own skull that is mysterious and unnerving. Both stylistically and formally innovative, the prose in Nietzsche's Kisses is surprising and rich. The result is a vivid, complex experience of Nietzsche's final hours.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. 7-12
- First Part:on the Despisers of the Body
- music without a future
- pp. 25-38
- misunderstanding of the dream
- pp. 47-60
- historia abscond ita
- pp. 69-78
- second part:on the spirit of gravity
- raids of an untimely man
- pp. 113-124
- my impossible ones
- pp. 133-146
- third part:on the vision & the riddle
- nervous system
- pp. 155-158
- In some,the heart grows old first
- pp. 181-192
- on involuntary bliss
- pp. 203-238
- fourth part:the world is transfigured& all the heavens are full of joy
Additional Information
ISBN
9781573668620
Related ISBN(s)
9781573661270
MARC Record
OCLC
967589486
Pages
244
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-05
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2006