Life Lessons from Nietzsche
12 September 2013Imprint: Macmillan
Synopsis
The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, poet and cultural critic. He is best known for his controversial idea of 'life affirmation' that challenged traditional morality and all doctrines. Born in 1844 outside Leipzig, Germany, his teachings inspired people in all...
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12 September 2013128 pages
9781447245605Imprint: Macmillan
Reviews
A new series of books from Alain de Botton's School of Life does for Hobbes, Freud, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Byron and Bergson what de Botton's books have done for classical philosophers and Proust. They are short, snappy reads, reminiscent of Maria Popova's Brain Pickings blog - aphoristic digests from history's great mindsNew Statesman
thoroughly welcoming and approachable ... If the six books in the Life Lessons series can teach even a few readers to pay passionate heed to the world - to notice things - they will have been un unquestionable successJohn Banville, Prospect
there is a good deal to be learned from these little primersObserver
