I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche
A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy's greatest iconoclast
Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most enigmatic figures in philosophy, and his concepts—the Übermensch, the will to power, slave mor…
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