Table of Contents

Preface to revised edition; Part I. 1844–1869: 1. The child; 2. The schoolboy; 3. The student; Part II. 1869–1879: 4. The professor; 5. Wagner, Schopenhauer, Darwin and the Greeks; 6. Basel and Bayreuth; 7. Sorrento and an end in Basel; Part III. 1879–1889: 8. The turning-point; 9. The wanderer; 10. Lou Salomé; 11. Zarathustra; 12. The solitary; 13. The year 1888; 14; The revaluation; 15. The poet; 16. The collapse; Part IV. 1889–1900: 17. Nietzsche's death; Postscript 1999; Selective bibliography; Index.

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'Hollingdale's reliable, learned, reasonable, and above all deeply humane biography of Nietzsche has provided students with a trustworthy guide to the life of one of the most important thinkers of modern times and a helpful introduction to the development of his thought. This new edition, revised in style and corrected and updated in context throughout, and furnished with an important appendix supplying an overview of recent developments in scholarship in Nietzsche, should equip new generations of students with the orientation, understanding and critical sympathy they will need to face the challenges posed to the contemporary world by Nietzsche, and by those who claim to represent him.' Glenn W. Most, University of Chicago ' ... a judicious and stimulating introduction to a man whose ideas have been more revered and more perverted than those of any modern thinker'. Financial Times