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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...

Young Nietzsche | Young Nietzsche

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