Young Nietzsche (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Carl Pletsch
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Biography and intellectual history
- Time of Work: 1844-1876
- Setting: Germany and Switzerland
- Principal Characters: Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Jakob Burckhardt, Franz Overbeck, Richard Wagner
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, History, Biography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Culture, Intellectuals, Philosophy or philosophers, Genius, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts, Philology or philologists
- Locales: Germany, Switzerland
Carl Pletsch’s book is in large measure a psychobiographical study of Friedrich Nietzsche from his birth in 1844 to his break with Wagner in 1876. Readers with little faith in the interpretive viability of psychoanalytic categories inevitably will find themselves awed by Pletsch’s occasional flights of speculation, or perhaps irritated by his apparent confusions of needs, motives, and causes. Still, even among the unconverted, who could think of Max Weber in quite the same terms after reading Arthur Mitzman’s psychoanalytical biography, The Iron Cage (1970)? Or of Martin...
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