by Friedrich Nietzsche · PENGUIN GROUP · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780143036340
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«Why I Am So Wise» is the philosophical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche, published by Penguin Books in paperback (96 pages, in English).
Text from «Ecce Homo», the last work of Friedrich Nietzsche, in which the philosopher examines his own life and explains why he considers himself wise. With a provocative style, he challenges religion and conventional morality and defends individual will and the triumph of human vital force.
Part of the Penguin Great Ideas series. The text, originally written in 1888, is presented in a translation by R. J. Hollingdale.
For readers who want to explore the great ideas that have shaped the world, in a short and affordable format.
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.
