by Friedrich Nietzsche · MESTAS Ediciones, S.L. · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788410067745
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One of the most dazzling and provocative works of Western thought. In these pages, Nietzsche ceases to be merely a philosopher to become a poet, psychologist, and fierce prophet of an era in transformation. This study is not a conventional treatise: it is an explosion of lucidity where wit and depth converge, celebrating life while confronting the vertigo of doubt and the courage to face the abyss. It is a radical invitation to live with intensity, without masks or easy refuges, challenging the reader to live without metaphysical consolation.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879. He afterward lived as an independent writer, spending much of his life in relative solitude and financial insecurity while moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France in search of climates that might alleviate his condition, and in the following decade, he completed much of his core writing. In 1889, aged 44, he suffered a neurological collapse, and thereafter a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia; he lived out his remaining 11 years, first under the care of his mother, and later his sister, until his death. His works and his philosophy have fostered not only extensive scholarship but also much popular interest.
