![]() ![]() ![]() During the last decade of his life, Nietzsche suffered increasingly from dementia and was cared for by his sister, Elisabeth. Writing Zarathustra seems to have been part of how he resolved this heartbreak, and the book was also an intellectual breakthrough that helped him overcome his earlier nihilism. In 1882, the year before he began writing Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche also suffered the deepest romantic disappointment of his life when it became clear that he would never marry Lou Salomé, the woman he loved. He became a much more prolific writer after this, however, and developed his distinctive style, focusing on a critique of traditional morality and its European Christian foundations. Nietzsche was not a great success in the academic world, however: he became chronically ill in 1871, and he resigned his professorship in 1879 because of the sustaining a teaching schedule was too difficult (not to mention that his colleagues’ critiques led to his lectures being emptied out). A brilliant young student, Nietzsche was appointed to a university chair in classical philology at Basel when he was only 24 years old. ![]() He was the son of a Lutheran minister, and many of his later ideas were developed in reaction to Christian teachings. The Seven Seals (or: The Song of Yes and Amen)įriedrich Nietzsche was one of the most influential philosophers in the modern period. ![]()
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