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The Times Biography of the Year 2018“An exemplary biography. . . . Nietzsche steps out of the mists of obfuscation and rumor, vividly evoked. . . . An attentive, scrupulous portrait.” —Parul Seghal, The New York Times“This vibrant account of Friedrich Nietzsche’s life is a searching portrait of the philosopher and a keen assessment of his work. . . . Nietzsche often worried that he would be misread and misused; that he was, and still is, underlines the value of clear-eyed interpretations such as this.” —The New Yorker"Prideaux’s biography is a strikingly original portrait of Nietzsche and beautifully written." —Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad“Prideaux’s stylistic virtuosity and narrative talent has carved a much wider entry point to Nietzsche’s life and thought, setting a new standard for the genre.” —Maria Dimitrova, Bookforum"This is what every biography should be like—engrossing, intelligent, moving, often downright funny, and filled with insights and sharply observed details from an extraordinary life. Simply a blast." —Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Cafe“The biography Friedrich Nietzsche has been crying out for since the day he lost his reason and embraced a horse in a Turin square in 1889. Prideaux brings a calm and steady light to bear on this most incandescent of philosopher-poets, with illuminating results.” —John Banville, The Guardian“Splendid. . . . A beautifully written, and often intensely moving, account of a life devoted to the achievement of intellectual greatness and the exploration of the conditions for its flourishing.” —Jonathan Derbyshire, Financial Times“An outstanding biography impressive in the depth and breadth of its knowledge.” —John Carey, The Sunday Times“If ever there was to be a popular biography of Nietzsche, this is it. . . . Prideaux is a dogged, amiable guide and leaves you in no doubt whatsoever that her frail, footloose, ill-tempered subject was one of the most extraordinary people who ever lived” —Leo Robson, The Evening Standard“This biography is nothing short of a revelation. . . . Here is Nietzsche as most of us have not encountered him before. . . . The great pleasure of Prideaux’s sprightly biography is watching philosophy in the making.” —Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian“Masterful. . . . What sets Prideaux’s biography apart from previous accounts of Nietzsche’s life is its vibrant intimacy. Eschewing philosophical rigorousness for human proximity, Prideaux quite simply gets closer to Nietzsche than anyone before her.” —Morten Høi Jensen, The Los Angeles Review of Books“An excellently researched and compulsively readable book. . . . Packed with insights. . . . This is not just a deeply enjoyable and enlightening book. It’s also an all-too-timely one.” —The Spectator“Wide-ranging and sensitive. . . . An approachable biography of a usually forbidding man.” —The Economist“Witty, terribly clever and steeped in the wild, doomed peculiarities of 19th-century Germania, I Am Dynamite! is a tremendous and reformative biography of a man whom popular history has perhaps done a disservice.” —Hugo Rifkind, The Times (London)"A wonderful book about a truly remarkable man." —Nigel Warburton, author of Thinking from A to Z“A wonderfully gripping new biography of Nietzsche—the type you stay in bed all Sunday just to finish.” —The Irish Times“Beautiful and engaging. . . . Wonderfully readable. . . . The story of Nietzsche's life is by turns inspiring, poignant and dispiriting, and it has never been better told than in this riveting book.” —Ray Monk, The New Statesman“I Am Dynamite is a wonderful insight into an almost impossible character. . . . Prideaux gives back the humanity to the all-too-human Nietzsche, and even manages to do so for his wicked sister.” —Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman“I Am Dynamite! marks a natural progression from Prideaux’s previous two biographies of Munch and Strindberg. To those of us who value common sense, sound judgment, and quiet elegance, these three men are not exactly favorites—and nor is Wagner—but such reservations are blown away by the author’s formidable narrative powers, confirming her place among Britain’s top biographers.” —Henrik Bering, The New Criterion“A handsome, well-paced, and readable new biography. . . . An engaging book. . . . Prideaux paints a vivid picture of Nietzsche.” —Jonathan Rée, Prospect
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About the Author
Sue Prideaux is a novelist and biographer. Her books include Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream, which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and Strindberg: A Life, which received the Duff Cooper Prize and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
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Hardcover: 464 pages
Publisher: Tim Duggan Books; 1st Edition edition (October 30, 2018)
Language: English
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In 1888, Nietzsche was at the height of his powers. He wrote five books – The Case of Wagner, Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Nietzsche contra Wagner, and Ecce Homo. Georg Brandes, in Copenhagen, had just began a series of lectures on Nietzsche’s work which would kindle an explosion of interest in Nietzsche. Nevertheless, in January 1889 – at the age of 44 – Nietzsche collapsed into dementia, from which he never recovered. He died eleven years later.Dementia at age 44 is unusual. What was the cause of Nietzsche’s dementia?Throughout his life, beginning in childhood, Nietzsche had severe, often disabling migraines, accompanied by nausea and vomiting. He was blind in the right eye beginning in early adulthood, with extreme myopia of the right eye documented in childhood. What caused the blindness in his right eye – which is visibly bulging out in some photographs – and what caused his migraines, which were usually worse on the right side of his head? Why was the right pupil larger than the left, throughout his life – as documented by his earliest examinations in childhood?Over the past 20 years, a series of medical scholars have tried to answer each of the questions above, using modern medical insights to evaluate the rich data trove we have with regard to Nietzsche’s various ailments. Nietzsche’s medical history is remarkably well documented, beginning in childhood. We have the medical records of the many doctors who evaluated Nietzsche over the course of his life. There is one point on which the new generation of scholars agree: the diagnosis of “syphilisâ€, which was popular in the 20th century, cannot be sustained. For example, a trio of German and American neurosurgeons concluded that the evidence appears “to directly contradict the diagnosis of syphilis†(see Owen, Schaller, and Binder, 2007). They make a prediction regarding the correct diagnosis - meningioma - which could be tested and confirmed, or refuted, by exhuming and testing Nietzsche’s remains.Nietzsche’s various medical problems – in particular, his visual problems and his headaches – were central to his lived experience, leading to his retirement on disability at age 35. Remarkably, Prideaux shows little curiosity regarding the cause of those problems. On the contrary, she blithely asserts that the question of whether or not Nietzsche had syphilis “is unverifiable one way or the other†(p. 81). Such a broad claim might be admissible if she showed some familiarity with the conclusions reached by neurosurgeons such as Owen, Schaller, and Binder (2007). She could then explain to the reader why she believes that her judgment regarding Nietzsche’s neurological signs is more trustworthy than the judgment of the neurosurgeons and other physicians cited below. But, astonishingly, she seems not even to have read any of the papers listed below. All of these papers were published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals and all are readily available online. She never mentions any of them. Instead, she cites a 2001 work by Richard Schain, the least-persuasive of the new works questioning the diagnosis of syphilis.Nietzsche himself wrote that “the degree and kind of a man’s sexuality reach up into the highest pinnacle of his spirit†(Beyond Good and Evil, section 75). Prideaux asserts that Nietzsche had gonorrhea, again without showing any awareness of the controversy surrounding this question. How would he have contracted gonorrhea? Prideaux reports that Nietzsche’s friend Paul Rée once implied that Nietzsche had slept with prostitutes (p. 165), although she does not provide the source. Nietzsche denied having slept with prostitutes. Does Prideaux thinks Nietzsche is lying? Nietzsche laughed at bourgeois morality; why would he lie about sleeping with a prostitute? As Walter Kaufmann observed: we know of several women whom Nietzsche loved, but we know of no woman who loved Nietzsche. He may have died a virgin. In which case, how did he contract gonorrhea? Doesn’t this question merit some attention?A glance at Prideaux’s bibliography reveals very little scholarly research. She has read Nietzsche’s books and a few of his letters, as well as some of the most popular books about Nietzsche such as Sander Gilman’s Begegnungen mit Nietzsche – a book which she cites, peculiarly enough, only in the abridged and condensed English translation, not in the unabridged German original. She seems largely uninterested in what anybody else has said about Nietzsche.Nietzsche’s complete letters are available in German, in an eight-volume critical edition available at amazon.de, published in 2003. Prideaux apparently has not read them; she does not cite them. Instead, she cites the 1969 “selected letters†translated into English by Christopher Middleton. Walter Kaufmann – the dean of Nietzsche scholars – reviewed this book for the New York Times and noted that Middleton’s slim volume included only a tiny fraction of Nietzsche’s letters, and that Middleton’s translations were marred by both “errors in translation and scholarship†which “perpetuate some old errors.†Nietzsche wrote 34 letters to his friend Paul Rée; the Middleton translation includes only two of those letters. And yet this slender 1969 book is the collection of letters on which Prideaux relies. Here is the link to Kaufmann’s 1969 review: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/11/30/89151274.pdf. Although Prideaux refers to Kaufmann as a “great scholar†(p. 128), she seems to have read very little of Kaufmann’s work.The five papers cited below offer four different explanations for Nietzsche’s dementia. Two suggest a meningioma with onset in childhood. The other three suggest three other conditions. The one point on which all five agree is that syphilis is the least likely explanation. Prideaux shows no awareness of any of this published research.If this book were a thesis submitted for a master’s degree in philosophy, I would give it a passing mark, although I would note that it is derivative and unoriginal.Citations:Hemelsoet, Hemelsoet and Devreese (2008). The neurological illness of Friedrich Nietzsche. Acta neurologica Belgica, 108:9-16.Koszka (2009). Friedrich Nietzsche: A classical case of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome? Journal of Medical Biography 17:161-164.Orth & Trimble (2006). Friedrich Nietzsche’s mental illness – general paralysis of the insane vs. frontotemporal dementia. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 114:439-444.Owen, Schaller, and Binder (2007). The madness of Dionysus: a neurosurgical perspective on Friedrich Nietzsche. Neurosurgery 61:626-632.Sax (2003). What was the cause of Nietzsche’s dementia? Journal of Medical Biography. 2003:47-54.
I was excited to pick up this biography of Nietzsche since the description made me hope that it was more than just a dry telling of facts or an analysis of his works. In that, I was not disappointed. Prideaux has done a very good job of making the biography interesting even as she includes all the facts, excerpts, letters, etc that a good biographer should consult and include in a biography. The first chapter did not strike me as the best place to start - it picks up with Nietzsche's first meeting with Wagner - and I am glad that I plugged through to the second half of the chapter where the biographer actually sets the scene with familial history, local history and politics in which the reader can then gain a better understanding of the Philosopher's beginnings.There are many misconceptions and biases against Nietzsche (During my college years, I was informed curtly by a relative that Nietzsche was a Nazi and did not deserve to be read!) and I was very glad to see this book address each and every one in a thorough fashion. Prideaux draws the man for us, with all his flaws and hopes and failures, but a man with high aspirations and great disappointments as well. His musical talent, his creativity and finally his philosophy are explored and examined clearly and in a manner that should be easily accessible to most readers.There is tragedy in what happened to Nietzsche in his final years when he descended into madness and Prideaux draws the picture for us unflinchingly in all the details of what borders on abuse and definitely tips into exploitation. The actions of his sister, Elizabeth, how his writings and his reputation were manipulated and misportrayed by Hitler and the Nazi party, how his disease was misdiagnosed and his very death explained in a fabricated lie; these are disturbing to read about anyone but made even worse by the fact that Prideaux shows us the intellect, the curiosity and the humanity behind the famous name.In short, this is an excellent examination of a Nietzsche's philosophy as well as of his growth from young aspiring musician to teacher to disillusioned philosopher. If there are any flaws in this biography, it would be that the writer occasionally slips into flowery speech and language picked up, perhaps, from her extensive research and reading the language of Nietzsche's time. However, this adds to the immediacy of the events and did not interfere with the gravity and excellence of the text.Very highly recommended!
I found this book thin and unsatisfying, content-wise. Yes, it’s written in a lively way but it skips too lightly over Nietzsche’s thought, and some of the writing itself seemed to reveal a lack of critical analysis. Take this quote from the book about Wagner’s Ring cycle: “The storyline is based on the great German myth of the Nibelungen, in which the ancient Norse gods behave quite unlike the Judeo-Christian God but very much as Greek gods. They are capricious, unfair, lustful, deceitful, and entirely human.†In a bio about Nietzsche of all people to apparently unthinkingly portray the Judeo-Christian god as unlike the Greeks’ gods in not being “capricious, unfair, ...†etc. really does expose, at the very least, some seriously philosophically weak assumptions.
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