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Sue Prideaux

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  • Жизнь Фридриха Ницше Сью Придо
    ISBN: 978-5-389-12346-5
    Год издания: 2020
    Издательство: Азбука-Аттикус, КоЛибри
    Язык: Русский

    Фридрих Ницше — одна из самых загадочных фигур в философии; пожалуй, самый непонятый мыслитель в истории, предвидевший проблемы нашего времени и искавший для них решения. Его идеи о сверхчеловеке, смерти Бога, воле к власти и рабской морали поставили под сомнение принятые в XIX–XX вв. общественные нормы и модели политических отношений и оказали значительное влияние на западную культуру. Но что большинство из нас знает о самом Ницше? Каким был философ, которым восхищались Альбер Камю, Айн Рэнд, Мартин Бубер? Ницше писал, что философия сама по себе автобиографична, и в яркой, убедительной, разрушающей мифы биографии, созданной признанным…

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  • I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche Сью Придо
    ISBN: 152476082X
    Год издания: 2018
    Издательство: Tim Duggan Books
    Язык: Английский
    A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy's greatest iconoclast

    Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most enigmatic figures in philosophy, and his concepts--the bermensch, the will to power, slave morality--have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the human condition. But what do most people really know of Nietzsche--beyond the mustache, the scowl, and the lingering association with nihilism and fascism? Where do we place a thinker who was equally beloved by Albert Camus, Ayn Rand, Martin Buber, and Adolf Hitler?

    Nietzsche wrote that all philosophy is autobiographical, and in this vividly compelling, myth-shattering biography, Sue Prideaux brings readers into the world of this brilliant, eccentric, and deeply troubled man, illuminating the events and people that shaped his life and work. From his placid, devoutly Christian upbringing--overshadowed by the mysterious death of his father--through his teaching career, lonely philosophizing on high mountains, and heart-breaking descent into madness, Prideaux documents Nietzsche's intellectual and emotional life with a novelist's insight and sensitivity.

    She also produces unforgettable portraits of the people who were most important to him, including Richard and Cosima Wagner, Lou Salom, the femme fatale who broke his heart; and his sister Elizabeth, a rabid German nationalist and anti-Semite who manipulated his texts and turned the Nietzsche archive into a destination for Nazi ideologues.

    I Am Dynamite! is the essential biography for anyone seeking to understand history's most misunderstood philosopher.
  • Strindberg: A Life Сью Придо
    ISBN: 9780300198065
    Год издания: 2013
    Издательство: Yale University Press
    Язык: Английский
    Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist and hellraiser – August Strindberg was all these, and yet he is principally known, in Arthur Miller's words, as "the mad inventor of modern theater" who led playwriting out of the polite drawing room into the snakepit of psychological warfare.

    This biography, supported by extensive new research, describes the eventful and complicated life of one of the great literary figures in world literature. Sue Prideaux organizes Strindberg's story into a gripping and highly readable narrative that both illuminates his work and restores humour and humanity to a man often shrugged off as too difficult. Best known for his play Miss Julie, Strindberg wrote sixty other plays, three books of poetry, eighteen novels, and nine autobiographies. Even more than most, Strindberg is a writer whose life sheds invaluable light on his work.

    Prideaux explores Strindberg's many art-life connections, revealing for the first time the originals who inspired the characters of Miss Julie and her servant Jean, the bizarre circumstances in which the play was written, and the real suicide that inspired the shattering ending of the play. Recounting the playwright's journey through the "real" world as well as the world of belief and ideas, Prideaux marks the centenary of Strindberg's death in 1912 with a biography worthy of the man who laid the foundation for Western drama through the twentieth century and even into the twenty-first.
  • Edvard Munch: Behind The Scream Сью Придо
    ISBN: 0300110243
    Год издания: 2005
    Язык: Английский
    Although almost everyone recognizes Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream, hardly anyone knows much about the man. What kind of person could have created this universal image, one that so vividly expressed all the uncertainties of the twentieth century? What kind of experiences did he have? In this book, the first comprehensive biography of Edvard Munch in English, Sue Prideaux brings the artist fully to life. Combining a scholar’s precision with a novelist’s insight, she explores the events of his turbulent life and unerringly places his experiences in their intellectual, emotional, and spiritual contexts.
    With unlimited access to tens of thousands of Munch’s papers, including his letters and diaries, Prideaux offers a portrait of the artist that is both intimate and moving. Munch sought to paint what he experienced rather than what he saw, and as his life often veered out of control, his experiences were painful. Yet he painted throughout his long life, creating strange and dramatic works in which hysteria and violence lie barely concealed beneath the surface. An extraordinary genius, Munch connects with an audience that reaches around the world and across more than a century.