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“Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born in 1844, the son of a Protestant pastor, whose conservative family expected the boy to become a pastor too.”
— from the book
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Provocative and ... persuasive... {Pletsch} has illuminated the process by which a gifted but awkward philology student became one of the modern world's most original thinkers... Deserves to be read... by anyone interested in the dynamics of creative influence and achievement.