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Nietzsche

A dramatic biographical portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche's descent from brilliant young professor to cosmic madman who collapsed embracing a beaten horse in Turin.

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CHAPTER ONE The Abyss Stares Back THERE ARE TWO kinds of people who talk about Nietzsche. The first kind name-drop him. They quote God is dead like it’s a mic drop, never reading the sentence after it. They think he’s edgy. Cool. Dangerous. A philosopher for leather jackets and late-night dorm room debates. They post Nietzsche memes between Jordan Peterson videos and think they’ve found the secret to the universe. The second kind? They’ve been burned by him. They read him — not once, but obsessively. They circled his words like vultures until they realized the real corpse on the page was them. They didn’t come to Nietzsche for answers. They came because everything else had already failed....

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