I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche

from Stbalbach

Nietzsche is one of my many terra incognita. So I hoped Sue Prideaux new biography would provide some enlightenment. Since everything is brand new to me, it did not disappoint. It covers the life, the philosophy and the art of his work. The philosophy I had to supplement using some other sources ...

from stillatim

Horrible title, fabulous cover, very enjoyable book. Prideaux writes well, she has a great eye for the important details and for knowing what can be left out, and a flare for narrative. Her destruction of Elisabeth Nietzsche is glorious; her writing on Friedrich is obviously even-handed, since I ...

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Great title, great cover, and a pretty good stab at a contemporary life of Nietzsche. To me, the book's main accomplishment is its detailed account of Nietzsche's last, insane years; she minutely describes what we know of his symptoms, of how and where he was kept, and, especially, the individual...

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The feeling that I'm mostly left with on finishing this biography is pity for its subject, as between the death of his father at a young age, the chronic bad health, and the ever-threatening abyss of insanity, Nietzsche might as well have been walking around with a cosmic "kick me" sign stuck to ...

from Ophiphos

While I've been a fan of Nietzsche for decades, it wasn't until recently encountering other authors he inspired that I ever bothered to read a biography (aside from Ecce Homo). This may have been one of my biggest mistakes concerning Nietzsche. Sue Prideaux does an excellent job of relating the b...