Becoming What You Are
From Turin, writer Ken Hollings offers an overview of Friedrich Nietzsche as the restless traveller dissatisfied with the complacency of the world around him.
βNietzsche is one of those writers who addresses his readers directly; you feel alone with him while he explores his thoughts in your presenceβ, notes the writer Ken Hollings. βThis makes him one of the best travelling companions.β
For more than a decade, a weekβs summer break in Europe has provided Hollings with uninterrupted leisure time to read a different work by the influential nineteenth century German thinker, Friedrich Nietzsche. On Holiday with Nietzsche reveals Hollingsβ personal thoughts and impressions about these literary encounters. Working from notes and journal entries compiled during his travels, Hollings takes us over mountains and lakes, through meadows and forests, across oceans and city squares - locations often frequented by Nietzsche himself.
Starting in Turin, a favourite city of Nietzscheβs, and ending up on the North Sea, where Hollings wrestles in his cabin with Nietzscheβs book Untimely Meditations, this first essay offers an overview of Nietzsche the philosopher as the restless traveller dissatisfied with the complacency of the world around him.
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