Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

DM judged The Ego and His Ownthe most powerful book that has ever emerged from a single mind. She adopted Stirner's emphasis on individualism and anti-intellectualism, and began writing against political movements...

The lecture proved quite popular, and Clifford's Inn had to turn people away. Over the following years, FF put on many such readings, performing works by Homer , Shelley , Yeats , Lady Gregory ...

The TLS notice dismissed this novel as a feeble and commonplace story told with bright facility. Its sneering extended to pointing out a mis-spelling of Nietzsche .

RW 's fifth novel, Dragon's Blood: Conte de Fée Deuxième, set in postwar Germany, explored, in Nietzsche an terms, the sense of loss and chaos.

This story of infidelity features an Italian financier who as a furiously jealous foreigner is compared to Shakespeare's Othello. (At least Provana is not black comments one character.) There the resemblance ends, for...

Critic Patricia Murphy argues that this novel reads like a fictionalized version of Nietzsche 's treatise on the past in Unzeitgemässe betrachtungen (published in 1873, translated into English in 1983), in which he cautions against...

In these stories GE examines female sexuality and passion, as well as women's reaction against gender constraints on their freedom, intellect, occupation, and sexuality. Having discovered Nietzsche in Norway, GE makes references to him...

GBS 's Man and Superman, a Nietzsche an romantic comedy, was first publicly presented (without the third act) by the Stage Society at the Court Theatre in London.

Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche looks at its subject through his relation to the element of water. Its lover (who in the French title is unmistakably female) addresses her subject as you, but switches...

Finally, Women to a Philosopher is a feminist response to Nietzsche : Saw you not the brain-wrecking absurdity / Of preaching superman and scorning women? These responses are spontaneous and casual, probably never intended...

O'Brien became known for his regular anthologies of selected recent short stories. He also published a biography of Friedrich Nietzsche . The couple had one child together, a son.

They met for the first time in Glasgow in September 1918, at a gathering at a mutual friend's flat. At this time Willa was twenty-eight and happy with her independence. I thought I had been...

A closer friendship formed in Leipzig was that with a young Scotsman, George Robertson , who was studying for a PhD in German literature. He reawakened Richardson's interest in books and writing, particularly when she...

Carrington began to alter herself in other ways also. During her first term at the Slade she began to go by her surname only. Excitement about her new surroundings and acquaintances prompted her to...

Much of ID 's education was self-administered. She read voraciously whether in Denmark or Africa, and was particularly well grounded in the Danish, other European, and English literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Spinoza