Binding: Paperback
Description: " A stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection." - - Heller Mc Alpin NPR. org Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR. One of Lit Hub's 15 Books You Should Read in September and one of Outside's Best Books of Fall A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich Nietzsche Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen the other seventeen years later in radically different circumstances: he is now a husband and father and his wife and small child are in tow. Kaag sets off for the Swiss peaks above Sils Maria where Nietzsche wrote his landmark work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both of Kaag's journeys are made in search of the wisdom at the core of Nietzsche's philosophy yet they deliver him to radically different interpretations and more crucially revelations about the human condition. Just as Kaag's acclaimed debut American Philosophy: A Love Story seamlessly wove together his philosophical discoveries with his search for meaning Hiking with Nietzsche is a fascinating exploration not only of Nietzsche's ideals but of how his experience of living relates to us as individuals in the twenty - first century. Bold intimate and rich with insight Hiking with Nietzsche is about defeating complacency balancing sanity and madness and coming to grips with the unobtainable. As Kaag hikes alone or with his family but always with Nietzsche he recognizes that even slipping can be instructive. It is in the process of climbing and through the inevitable missteps that one has the chance in Nietzsche's words to become who you are."
Title: Hiking With Nietzsche On Becoming Who You Are
Author(s): Kaag John
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250234681
Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/1/2019
Category: Memoirs