1868. Nietzsche was 24 years old. As a young university professor, he was invited to Wagner's home one night. From that moment on, his life was completely rewritten. Wagner was 55 at the time. He had ...

ed. with a preface by Dr. Oscar Levy; authorized translation by Anthony M. Ludovici. New York and Toronto: Doubleday Page & Company. 1921. Large 8vo, xvi + 364 pp. $3.59. ed. by Elizabeth ...

N is for the philosopher who went from being one of Wagner's staunchest supporters to one of his sternest critics. N is for Nietzsche, the German philosopher and near-contemporary of Wagner who went ...

Michael Tanner looks at the relationship between two titans of German culture, the 55-year old composer Richard Wagner and the precocious 24-year old philologist, who was destined to become the great ...

A philosopher who sought to affirm life amidst loneliness and the agony of illnessFew philosophers make one feel such a vast gap between the intensity of their words and the figure of the person who ...

When Friedrich Nietzsche died 120 years ago, he missed the chance to enjoy fame — and notoriety — that was just beginning to grow. His radical thinking continues to influence the intellectual world to ...