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In this beautifully written account, Julian Young provides the most comprehensive biography available today of the life and philosophy of the nineteenth-.

Julian Young's biography, Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography, is unusual, given the author's academic repute as a Nietzsche scholar.!

Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography

March 29, 2023

This is a controversial book for several reasons.

First, the author was accused of plagiarizing a previous biography written by Curtis Cate. Young gave a strange explanation for some obvious similarities and was criticized for it. I have read Cate’s biography years before; it was fine but too focused on daily events in Nietzsche’s life, lacking deeper insight into his intellectual development.

This book blows away preconceptions of Nietzsche, not because Cate has another angle on his life but because of the enormous research and detail the author puts.

Friedrich Nietzsche A Philosophical Biography.

Julian Young's biography, Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography, is unusual, given the author's academic repute as a Nietzsche scholar.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers.

A biography of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, written by Rüdiger Safranski and published by Carl Hanser Verlag in 2000.

Seeing that this one is titled "philosophical biography", I expected that he perhaps copied good parts of Cate’s work and expanded the philosophical aspect. While it is a sort of expanded version it is not better; there are other problems with this book.

Biographical chapters are focused mostly on Nietzsche private life; Young presents him as more sociable and charming than usually thought.

He often emphasizes his politeness, which he takes as a sign that his proclaimed egoism and immoralism should not be taken at face value. Stran