Description: Hiking With Nietzsche : On Becoming Who You Are, Paperback by Kaag, John, ISBN 1250234689, ISBN-13 9781250234681, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
"A stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection." --Heller McAlpin,
Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR. One of Lit Hubs 15 Books You Should Read in September and one of Outsides 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."
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Book Title: Hiking with Nietzsche : on Becoming Who You Are
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Picador
Publication Year: 2019
Topic: Special Interest / Literary, Individual Philosophers, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Personal Memoirs, Religious, Mountaineering, Europe / General
Item Height: 0.7 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Travel, Philosophy, Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 8.1 Oz
Author: John Kaag
Item Length: 8.1 in
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
