he never gave friends an address but directed them to send their letters to the local post office, so that nobody knew exactly where he lived. He was particularly secretive about his sex life. To this ...

One of the pitfalls of writing a biography of a great philosopher is the temptation to reduce important ideas to mere psychology, an outgrowth of some fluke in the philosopher’s personal development.

Julian Young is a well-known scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German philosophy. I put six questions to him about his new book, Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography. 1. Most ...

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and ...

The influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on modern psychology is slim. This is a shame. Nietzsche is vaguely remembered as a precursor of Freudianism, existentialism, and postmodernism, systems of thought ...

Philosophy professor John Kaag's 2016 book, American Philosophy, was a heady mix of memoir and intellectual history wrapped up in a romantic story of a lost library and new love. In Hiking with ...