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This is a complete collection of all the novels written by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Anti-Christ, The Gay Science, The Birth of Tragedy, Ecce Homo, Human All Too Human, Twilight of the Idols, The Will to Power, The Case of Wagner, Untimely Meditations, The Dawn of Day, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, and Nietzsche Contra Wagner.
Regarded as one of the most profound German philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche is popularly considered a cultural critic and philologist whose work exerted a scholarly influence on modern intellectual history. His intellectual works focus on widespread themes such as religion, morality, philosophy, and science. Prominent elements of his philosophy include his radical critique of truth, a genealogical criticism of religion, and Christian morality. His body of work touched a wide range of topics, including art, philology, history, music, tragedy, and culture, most of which drew inspiration from Greek tragedy.
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1844-1900. German philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer. He wrote several critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.
Nietzsche began his career as a classical philologist - a scholar of Greek and Roman textual criticism - before turning to philosophy. In 1869, at age twenty-four, he was appointed to the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, the youngest individual to have held this position. He resigned in the summer of 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life. In 1889, at age forty-four, he suffered a collapse and a complete loss of his mental faculties. The breakdown was later ascribed to atypical general paresis due to tertiary syphilis, but this diagnosis has come into question. Nietzsche lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897, after which he fell under the care of his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche until his death in 1900.
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