The Life and Times of Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich William Nietzsche was a German philosopher whose work has been extremely influential on Western philosophical thought. In many ways he prefigured a kind of a iconic, plastic and bombastic approach to philosophy. His early life is marked fairly extensively by loss and suffering, which would end up having a very major factor on his work. He credited his shifting views and increasing interest to the work of Schopenhauer - quite interesting.