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Nietzsche

Nietzsche 2000

An introduction by H. James Birx.

“Let us assume that people will be allowed to read [my work] in about the year 2000.”
Nietzsche, 24 September 1886”

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche has emerged as the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century, although both controversy and confusion surround his life and thought. He was born on 15 October 1844 at Röcken in Saxony, Germany. His father Karl Ludwig, a Lutheran pastor, died when Nietzsche was only five years old. Consequently, the precocious boy was raised in a household of females: his mother, sister, two aunts and a grandmother.

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