Nietzsche

Attempt at a Mythology

By: Ernst Bertram, Robert E. Norton (Translator)

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Hardcover | 16 March 2009

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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 Andre 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.

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''Robert E. Norton has done an admirable job in preparing this English translation of a provocative critical study of Nietzsche - an important link between Nietzsche's reception in the Weimar Period and the philosopher's cooptation by the Nazis in the 1930s. This translation is simply splendid - flowing, precise, and sensitive to nuance.'' Marion Faber, translator of Human, All Too Human and Beyond Good and Evil ''Ernst Bertram's seminal work ... not only highlighted Nietzsche's own .revival of the mythical dimension as essential to creative human activity but also sought, in the heroizing of spirit of the Stephan George circle (with which Bertram was associated) to render Nietzsche himself into a latter-day prophet - a dynamic, living national myth.'' - Times Literary Supplement

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