Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... THE PHILOSOPHY OF NIETZSCHE CHAPTER I THE LIFE OF NIETZSCHE Nietzsche himself has said of Schopenhauer that he was the last German to enjoy an international reputation. The same remark may, however, more fitly be made of Friedrich Nietzsche himself. The powerful mind of Nietzsche has exercised an influence in Europe which it would be difficult to overestimate. During the last ten years the philosophy and letters of the Continent have been under the hypnotism of that gospel of life in all its plenitude and energy which, preached under the attractive form of aphorisms, vigorous and apodictical, has broken loose from the trammels of the dogmatic school which had dominated the world of Western thought since Immanuel Kant. In Germany the philosophy of Nietzsche has given birth to a literature abundant in quantity and varying in quality. In France it has attracted the attention of all thinking circles and has become, as M. Ferdinand Brunetiere remarks in the first volume of his " Discours de Combat," the " philosophie a la mode." M. Emile Faguet, M. Alfred Fouillee, M. Eugene de Roberty, M. Henri Lichtenberger, have contributed valuable works to the Nietzsche bibliography. In England something like a dozen books have been devoted to the life and teachings of the German philosopher, notably those of Mr T. Common, Mr A. M. Ludovici, Mr J. M. Kennedy, Dr Miigge, and Mr A. R. Orage; while a translation of the whole of his works has been issued in eighteen substantial volumes under the editorship of Dr Oscar Levy. The first half of the official biography, written in German by Mrs Forster-Nietzsche, has recently been published in an English translation, and it is understood that the other part is to follow shortly. It is, however, regrettable that...