When Nietzsche Wept
by Irvin D. Yalom
A novel in which Josef Breuer treats Nietzsche's despair, and Nietzsche treats Breuer's, in 1882 Vienna, with Freud as a young observer. Philosophy as therapy, imagined.
Read it if…
you want existential philosophy dramatised.
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Skip it if…
you want history; it is invention.
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Three things you will actually use
- Become who you are.
- Choose your life as if you would live it eternally.
- Even the healer needs healing.
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Read it over a weekend.
Our verdict
Philosophy as therapy, imagined.
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