Nietzsche’s Centaur

Bernard Williams

  • Nietzsche on Tragedy by M.S. Silk and J.P. Stern
    Cambridge, 441 pp, £27.50, March 1981, ISBN 0 521 23262 7
  • Nietzsche: A Critical Life by Ronald Hayman
    Weidenfeld, 424 pp, £18.50, March 1980, ISBN 0 297 77636 3
  • Nietzsche. Vol. 1: The Will to Power as Art by Martin Heidegger, translated by David Farrell Krell
    Routledge, 263 pp, £11.50, March 1981, ISBN 0 7100 0744 2

Nietzsche’s first book, The Birth of Tragedy, was published in 1872, when he was 27, and while he was a Professor of Classics at Basel. It had the unusual effect, for him, of attracting some attention at the time of its appearance: after that, Nietzsche’s writings virtually ceased to be noticed until the 1890s, by which time he was, for the last 11 years of his life, insane, virtually without speech, and out of touch with the world.

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