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When I began my biography of Nietzsche’s youth, The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche, I expected eventually to dislike my subject. Biographers frequently start by admiring their protagonists, then become hostile. Why should I be different? My experience, however, was the opposite. I found a great deal repellent in Nietzsche at the beginning, then decided that […]
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1861 This photograph, taken for Confirmation, was probably the first portrait of himself that Nietzsche had ever seen. Fundamentally pleased with it, he nonetheless acknowledged its homelier aspects: “My stance is hunched, my feet somewhat crooked, and my hand looks like a dumpling.” 1862 In this image Nietzsche seems quite a different person from […]
Read MoreDaniel Blue’s The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche: The Quest for Identity 1844-1869 explores the famed German philosopher’s first formative 24 years of life. Browse through this interactive family tree to learn about Nietzsche’s assorted relatives. To learn more about each individual relatives, click on each family member’s square.
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Jeffrey Alexander, Elizabeth Butler Breese and Maria Luengo consider the crisis faced by modern journalism, focusing on a different perspective and providing a somewhat less gloomy conclusion. The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered is available to buy now.
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The Jewish philosopher Leo Strauss held that the Hebrew Bible should be regarded as being in “radical opposition” to philosophy and as its “antagonist.” This is an influential view, which has contributed much to the ongoing omission of the Bible from most accounts of the history of political philosophy. In this essay, I examine Strauss’s […]
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Can you give us a brief explanation of what metametaphysics is, and the big questions at the core of it? The term ‘meta-metaphysics’ may seem awkward – and it is – but it is descriptive: the focus is on a methodological, meta-level analysis of the discipline of metaphysics. On a very general level, there are […]
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Christopher Rowe sheds some light on the great philosopher, with reference to his new and lively translation of Theaetetus and Sophist, two of Plato's most important dialogues...
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To celebrate the publication of George Herbert: 100 Poems, we ask volume editor Helen Wilcox to pick her favourite George Herbert poems and explain why she chose them.
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