Erich Heller Boeken

Exploring the intersection of imagination and art in the modern world, the essays delve into the challenges posed by scientific arrogance, psychological introspection, and political turmoil. Erich Heller thoughtfully examines the insights of philosophers like Hegel and Nietzsche, while highlighting the resilience of artists such as Thomas Mann, whose work seeks redemption through creativity. The collection also addresses influential figures like Kleist, Fontane, and Rilke, emphasizing the essential connection between literature and human values with Heller's characteristic elegance and wit.

This is a translation of both volumes of Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human. The first volume appeared in 1878, just before Nietzsche abandoned his academic life. In 1886 it was republished, incorporating in a second volume two books of aphorisms which Nietzsche had published in the meantime. Subtitled 'A Book for Free Spirits', Human, All Too Human marked for Nietzsche a new 'positivism' and scepticism with which he challenged his previous metaphysical and psychological assumptions. Nearly all the themes of his later work are displayed here with characteristic perceptiveness and honesty, it remains one of the works fundamental for an understanding of his thought.

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