A biography of Nietzsche, focusing on his philosophical ideas and ambivalent attitude towards German politics. A student of classical thought and philology, Nietzsche was influenced by Schopenhauer's pessimistic ideas and his antisemitism. At first an enthusiastic Wagnerian, he later broke with Wagner and rejected his exaltation of Germany. Mentions Nietzsche's opposition to the involvement of his sister and brother-in-law, Bernhard Förster, in the...