Nietzsche in Turin

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"Lesley Chamberlain describes Nietzsche's move to Italy in 1888 and the routines he followed during his year in Turin: their plainness throws the final flourishing of Nietzsche's talent into startling relief. This humane study is a moving reappraisal of one of the most influential thinkers on the present age." "Nietzsche emerges as a gentle, tortured man dominated by his rigorous mind and his love of music. Lesley Chamberlain argues against the monstrous figure whose popular image is falsely tainted with Nazism; his philosophy was centred not on power but on the problem of pain. She reassesses Nietzsche, not as a destructive anti-humanist, but as an individualist challenging the idea that human beings cannot bear too much reality. The world Nietzsche envisaged embraced fearlessness, decried all forms of escapism, and celebrated the colour, vigour and beauty of creative imagination."--Jacket