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Books
It’s That Man Again
Nietzsche returns! John Lippitt reviews F.A. Lea The Tragic Philosopher: Friedrich Nietzsche (Athlone Press, 1993) and Keith M. May Nietzsche on the Struggle between Knowledge and Wisdom (St. Martin’s Press, 1993).
Imagine, time-travellers, that you find yourself transported back to 1957. Sputnik I, the world’s first satellite, has recently been launched; the first stereo discs are being marketed; and Buddy Holly’s first single, That’ll Be The Day, is just out. As you look around you at this partly familiar, partly alien world, one thing strikes you as very different from how it was back in 1995. You’ve guessed it: the Nietzsche scholarship.
The decision by Athlone Press to reissue a book on Nietzsche originally published in 1957 may initially seem bizarre.
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