Human all too human book5/26/2023 In the years immediately following, Nietzsche wrote two pieces - Assorted Opinions and Maxims and The Wanderer and His Shadow. Wagner died in 1883 and Nietzsche wrote to friends both that "Wagner was by far the fullest man I have ever known" and that "it was hard to be for six years the enemy of the man one most reveres." During Wagner's life, Nietzsche never published a critical word about him. Meanwhile, Nietzsche himself had been going in quite a different direction. Nietzsche met Wagner in Sorrento, in the fall of 1876 Wagner was full of his new composition "Parsifal," except that, from Nietzsche's point of view, Wagner was converting a fine classic myth of moral and psychological recovery into a pedestrian Christian extravaganza. With his Untimely Meditations behind him, Nietzsche began work on new material that was finally published in 1878 as Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits. He spent most of this period in Sorrento at the home of Malwida von Meysenbug and was close to his long-term friend Paul Ree, a philosopher and psychologist, who was working on his book The Origin of Moral Sensations. In 1876, because of poor health, Nietzsche took a leave of absence from his teaching position. Human, All Too Human Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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