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Nietzsche

The Man Who Saw Too Much

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Nietzsche

By: James Johnson
Narrated by: JD Lake
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He was sick, alone, and laughed at by every polite thinker of his day. Then he broke the world. This is the life and madness of Friedrich Nietzsche — the man who declared God dead, tore morality out by the roots, and invented the Übermensch before collapsing in a foreign street, hugging a horse and signing letters as Dionysus. Nietzsche: The Man Who Saw Too Much is a mind-melting biography of the firebrand who rewired philosophy from the ground up. You’ll walk through his childhood of grief, his meteoric rise as a scholar, his mythic friendship and break with Wagner, and his descent into prophetic madness. Along the way, you’ll meet the real Nietzsche — not the fascist misquote, not the edge-lord internet meme, but the lonely, brilliant, tortured man who saw through everything and chose to write anyway. This book doesn’t worship Nietzsche. It weaponizes him. If you’ve ever doubted your beliefs, questioned your place in the world, or wondered if there’s something beneath the masks we wear — this book is your signal flare.

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