Note: This post can be considered an addendum to my previous post entitled Sorrento Days . Nietzsche’s Journey to Sorrento by Paolo D’Iorio offers us an intimate look at Nietzsche's time in that Italian town at the beginning of the formation of thinking that would turn him away from his past with Richard Wagner and The Birth of Tragedy toward the future of his “ positivist period ” where concepts such as the “free spirit” took root and flourished. It spans his notebooks and correspondences of late-1876 into 1877 to reveal the circumstances of his life and thought that lead to the profound period of philosophical development which resulted in Human, All Too Human . The subtitle for the work is apt: “Genesis of the Philosophy of the Free Spirit.” The books does address the intricacies of his free spirit philosophy . Rather, it is an account of its birth and early development during and immediately following his time in Sorrento . The author relies heavily on Nietzsche’s
This blog is intended to be read in reverse order. That is, the most distant entry first. Friedrich Nietzsche offers possibly the best insights on how to posture and express one's life. His life's work was devoted to finding one's "style" within the chaos of existence. The trick, obivously, is not to lose your mind in the process. The title of this blog is explained in the February 29, 2012 post.