My Sister and I
by Friedrich Nietzsche 
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"A peculiar forgery that, while not succeeding as either philosophy or erotica, at least gives us insights into what some people thought the great man might have been up to in his sanitarium days"--Cover p. [4].Tags
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The book is a forgery (not authored by Nietzsche, and not touched by Dr. Levy), and not a particularly good one at that. It begins with a statement from the publisher recounting the extraordinary circumstances under which the manuscript was supposedly delivered into his hands - how fellow wards at the asylum smuggled paper and pens to professor Nietzsche, how the manuscript was secretly carried from Europe to North America, and how the original manuscript was destroyed in a fire shortly after publication. He explains why none of Nietzsche's acquaintances ever mentioned the book and why publication had to wait until many years after the deaths of Elisabeth Nietzsche and Dr. Levy, essentially for "political" reasons. Of course, Dr. Levy's show more daughter publicly denounced this book as something Levy had never worked on, and there are numerous anachronisms in the text that give it away as a fake. show less
Not a convincing forgery, but interesting to see the attempt being made.
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Aunque tremendamente controversial...al leerlo, no queda menos que rendirse ante tánta grandeza. Una vez más Nietzsche no abre sus puertas y nos invita a entrar a los complicados y profundos recobecos de su pensamiento.
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The son of a Lutheran pastor, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born in 1844 in Roecken, Prussia, and studied classical philology at the Universities of Bonn and Leipzig. While at Leipzig he read the works of Schopenhauer, which greatly impressed him. He also became a disciple of the composer Richard Wagner. At the very early age of 25, Nietzsche show more was appointed professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland. In 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, Nietzsche served in the medical corps of the Prussian army. While treating soldiers he contracted diphtheria and dysentery; he was never physically healthy afterward. Nietzsche's first book, The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music (1872), was a radical reinterpretation of Greek art and culture from a Schopenhaurian and Wagnerian standpoint. By 1874 Nietzsche had to retire from his university post for reasons of health. He was diagnosed at this time with a serious nervous disorder. He lived the next 15 years on his small university pension, dividing his time between Italy and Switzerland and writing constantly. He is best known for the works he produced after 1880, especially The Gay Science (1882), Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-85), Beyond Good and Evil (1886), On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), The Antichrist (1888), and Twilight of the Idols (1888). In January 1889, Nietzsche suffered a sudden mental collapse; he lived the last 10 years of his life in a condition of insanity. After his death, his sister published many of his papers under the title The Will to Power. Nietzsche was a radical questioner who often wrote polemically with deliberate obscurity, intending to perplex, shock, and offend his readers. He attacked the entire metaphysical tradition in Western philosophy, especially Christianity and Christian morality, which he thought had reached its final and most decadent form in modern scientific humanism, with its ideals of liberalism and democracy. It has become increasingly clear that his writings are among the deepest and most prescient sources we have for acquiring a philosophical understanding of the roots of 20th-century culture. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- My Sister and I
- Original publication date
- 1951
- Epigraph*
- "Si yo no fuera Cesar sería Cristo, el socialista, montaría un asno y cabalgaría hacia Jerusalem con Carlos Marx"
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