PHL220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Friedrich Nietzsche, Existentialism, Neurological Disorder
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Born in r cken, saxony (near leipzig, in present-day germany). Attends prestigious schulpforta (pforta school) boarding school, near. Discovers arthur schopenhauer"s the world as will and representation. At age 24, appointed professor of classical philology at the university of basel, switzerland. At outbreak of franco-prussian war, enlists in prussian army medical corps; contracted diphtheria and dysentery; health is never the same afterwards. For the next ten years, devotes himself to writing, spending his summers in engadin valley, switzerland, and his winters in italy (rapallo, turin, or. Breaks with his sister elizabeth over her marriage to the anti-semite bernhard f rster. Suddenly goes insane; committed to an asylum; then cared for by his mother in naumburg, Death of nietzsche"s mother; elizabeth takes charge of his care and moves to weimar, The gay science (books 1-4, 1882; book 5 1887). Thus spoke zarathustra (parts 1-2, 1883; part 3, 1884; part 4, 1885)
