Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252076015)

The only English translation of a crucial interpretation of Nietzsche

First published in 1918, Ernst Bertram's Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology substantially shaped the image of Nietzsche for the generation between the wars. It won the Nietzsche Society's first prize and was admired by luminous contemporaries including André Gide, Hermann Hesse, Gottfried Benn, and Thomas Mann. Although translated into French in 1932, the book was never translated into English following the decline of Nietzsche's and Bertram's reputations after 1945. Now, with Nietzsche's importance for twentieth-century thought undisputed, the work by one of his most influential interpreters can at last be read in English.

Employing a perspectival technique inspired by Nietzsche himself, Bertram constructs a densely layered portrait of the thinker that shows him riven by deep and ultimately irresolvable cultural, historical, and psychological conflicts. At once lyrical and intensely probing, richly complex yet thematically coherent, Bertram's book is a masterpiece in a forgotten tradition of intellectual biography.

Author: Ernst Bertram
ISBN-10: 025207601X
ISBN-13: 9780252076015
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2008
Pages: 424
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 03/06/2009 pg. 18
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2009 pg. 5