Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power

Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 0252028260
ISBN-13 : 9780252028267
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Book Synopsis Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power by : Carol Diethe

Download or read book Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power written by Carol Diethe and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003-06-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating study of the sister who betrayed and endangered her famous brother's legacy In 1901, a year after her brother Friedrich's death, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche published The Will to Power, a hasty compilation of writings he had never intended for print. In Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power, Carol Diethe contends that Förster-Nietzsche's own will to power and her desire to place herself--not her brother--at the center of cultural life in Germany are centrally responsible for Nietzsche's reputation as a belligerent and proto-Fascist thinker. Offering a new look at Nietzsche's sister from a feminist perspective, this spirited and erudite biography examines why Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche recklessly consorted with anti-Semites, from her own husband to Hitler himself, out of convenience and a desire for revenge against a brother whose love for her waned after she caused the collapse of his friendship with Lou Salomé. The book also examines their family dynamics, Nietzsche's dismissal of his sister's early writing career, and the effects of limited education on intelligent women. Diethe concludes by detailing Förster-Nietzsche's brief marriage and her subsequent colonial venture in Paraguay, maintaining that her sporadic anti-Semitism was, like most things in her life, an expedient tool for cultivating personal success and status. A volume in the series International Nietzsche Studies, edited by Richard Schacht


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