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Nietzsche is often remembered as a miserable polemicist who proclaimed the death of God, before embracing a horse and going crazy in Turin. In fact, when this German-born genius arrived in the Swis...s town of Basel in 1869, he was young, happy and full of optimism. Just appointed to a full chair of classics at the University, he would remain in Switzerland, off and on, for the next decade; it was here that he would begin to make his name. While is Basel he published his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, including a sustained attack on Socrates and the supremacy of rationality. Nietzsche also reflected deeply on the role of the teacher in society; it was only when illness struck that Neitzsche allowed his own teaching commitments to slide. Of enormous influence upon him was his friendship with Richard Wagner, and Nietzsche would routinely make the trip to Luzern where Wagner and his family lived. Nietzsche was treated as an honorary member of this family.
Nietzsche is often remembered as a miserable polemicist who proclaimed the death of God, before embracing a horse and going crazy in Turin. In fact, when this German-born genius arrived in the Swis...s town of Basel in 1869, he was young, happy and full of optimism. Just appointed to a full chair of classics at the University, he would remain in Switzerland, off and on, for the next decade; it was here that he would begin to make his name. While is Basel he published his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, including a sustained attack on Socrates and the supremacy of rationality. Nietzsche also reflected deeply on the role of the teacher in society; it was only when illness struck that Neitzsche allowed his own teaching commitments to slide. Of enormous influence upon him was his friendship with Richard Wagner, and Nietzsche would routinely make the trip to Luzern where Wagner and his family lived. Nietzsche was treated as an honorary member of this family.
| Series: | Journeys in Thought |
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| Published: | 2004 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OU Digital Archive web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:43:21 |
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| Contributors: | Raimond Gaita; Angela (Angela H.) Hobbs; Johnathan Rée; Roger Scruton |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Subject terms: | Philosophy, European; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,--1844-1900; Basel (Switzerland)--Intellectual life |
| Production number: | AUDA558A |
| Available to public: | no |
