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*** The Search for Spirituality: King, Ursula:

Taechang Kim
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MEMO

Encountering people of other  faiths and getting seriously engaged
in interfaith dialogue opens up a magnificent opportunity to take
spiritual otherness seriously. 
Interfaith dialogue reveals not only the pluralism of culture and faiths, 
but the pluralism of spiritualities themselves. 

That can be a difficult but also strengthening , deeply enriching, and transforming discovery. 
It opens up new lands of mind and soul, and can reveal the gracious traces and touches of the Spirit in ever so many unexpected ways.

(Ursula King: The Search for Spirituality p.74 )

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The Search for Spirituality: Our Global Quest for a Spiritual Life Paperback 
by Ursula King (Author) – 2011
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The Search for Spirituality offers a comprehensive overview of the incredibly rich and diverse spiritual landscapes of our world, and explores the global search for a spiritual life at an individual and social level, inside and outside religious traditions, and in the secular world.

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"Beautifully written, this is an enlightening book that informs while it gently persuades. Opening many windows onto spiritual experience in our increasingly global culture, it invites the reader to partake and contribute." --Elizabeth Johnson, professor of theology, Fordham University, and author, "She Who Is"

"[A] very important and interesting new book . . . a wise and illuminating guide." --John F. Haught, research professor, Georgetown University, and author, "God After Darwin"

"A remarkably wide-ranging book that touches briefly on many aspects of the spiritual life across the world--both our need for spirituality and how we have sought to address that need through nature, science, and the arts." --"Library Journal"

"A unique, valuable, and irreplaceable addition to the literature on spirituality . . . This work will be a classic!" --Mary Evelyn Tucker, visiting professor for social and policy studies, Yale University

"Absolutely brilliant. We have desperately needed Ursula King's kind of dispassionate overview of spirituality. . . . Thank God we have it now." --Phyllis Tickle, author, "The Great Emergence"

"Spirituality is notoriously hard to define, but King makes a bold attempt, outlining its scope and impact . . . this introduction to spiritualities not based in religious practice is thoughtful and accessible." --"Publishers Weekly"

"What distinguishes Ursula King's search for a spirituality that will respond to global needs is the way she combines both depth and breadth in her search." --Paul F. Knitter, Union Theological Seminary


About the Author
Ursula King is an internationally renowned scholar on spirituality, interfaith dialogue, women and religion, and the French thinker Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. She is professor emerita of theology and religious studies at the University of Bristol in England and author of "Christian Mystics" and "Spirit of Fire."

Publisher ‏ : ‎ BlueBridge (1 February 2011)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
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5.0 out of 5 stars EASY AND REWARDING READReviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 19 April 2012
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"Full of vision, hope, and inspiration, this profound and passionate manifesto provides a fascinating overview of the incredibly rich and diverse spiritual landscapes of the world--feeding a deep longing for a life of wholeness and meaning and a society of greater peace and justice. Drawing from a wide variety of faiths and secular traditions, this book looks at cultural diversity and religious pluralism; clarifies the meaning of spirituality in different languages, faiths, and societies; and shows how numerous new approaches to spirituality have emerged. Also explored are the spiritual dimensions of nature, science, and technology; the transcending experiences of art and spirit; and the powerful expressions of ecological spirituality found around the world. New insights are provided that highlight the major differences that exist between spiritualities while also pointing out the various parallels and points of convergence."

Further, Professor King writes in her prologue to the book that she, "...makes no claim to present a comprehensive in-depth study or critical assessment of the varieties of spirituality that exist in the contemporary world. Its diverse reflections on a single theme are but a modest introduction to very large, complex realities and experiences. Hopefully it will provide readers with plenty of material for deepening their own thinking, and encourage them to pursue further dialogue and inquiry within and without."

For me, her hope has been fully realised. If the above description and note from the prologue is drawing you in then the book can only be a highly recommended must read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very readable and enjoyableReviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 18 May 2015
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Very readable with only average intelligence needed. A prior enthusiasm to learn about all the religions and pseudo-religions of the world is needed to get the full benefit of the book. Ursula rises the flag for the females - good for her. Good resource information in the notes at the end.

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Took a lot of willpower to keep going through this book. I fear worst is yet to come however, as now I have to write a 2750 word paper on it!

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Ursula King views the subject of spirituality through a wide scope ("Global Quest") and focuses her considerations squarely on the present life-situation. Not an exclusively Christian orientation, King is interested in exploring how the common spiritual impulse is revealing itself in its myriad manifestations today. Hence,chapters are given to "Spirituality in a Global World" and "Spirituality and Interfaith Dialogue." Chapters on spirituality as it relates to education and health, gender, nature and science, and the arts and the planet are also treated--all with great sensitivity and understanding. A wonderful bibliography with individual book descriptions makes this little book a treasure trove for further study.

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A great read to close out the year. Ursula King offers much hope for this world of ours. I especially love one of her closing thoughts - that we need pneumatophores (metaphorically meaning nodes of thoughts, transformative, empowering ideas, and inspirations that can serve as bearers of spirit and new life for the human community). As we enter into the new year, 2017, may we all strive to put forth as many pneumatophores as we can. Let us exercise our creativity and ingenuity. Let us care for one another and all of creation. And let us LOVE!

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Taechang Kim 한국의 생태사상 박희병

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《韓国の生態思想》ドルビョゲ韓国学叢書3 (ドルビョゲ1999年6月15日初版発行)。著者(ソウル大学校人文大学国文学科教授)の "はじめに" の次の文言に興味が湧いて一読。丁度京都フォーラムとの関連で内外の参考文献を探る中で本書と出会ったのでいろいろ示唆を受けた。
"この本は、韓国の伝統思想に内臓されている生態主義的思惟を探究するために執筆された。私は、２０代以来資本主義体制に批判的であったが、まだ生態主義的展望を持ち得なかった。人間と世界を見る私の観点は、主に弁証法哲学に依拠
していた。しかし、80年代後半頃から私は人間と自然の関係に対して深く考えるようになり、それを通じてまた人間に対して思惟し始めた。この時期以後、人間を理解するためには、'自然的' 連関との繋がりに対する顧慮が必須的であるという
事実を知覚するようになった。このような転換あるいは拡張は突然生じたと言うよりは、以前から徐々に進行してきたというべきであろう。80年代に入り韓国の
生態的条件は急速に悪化し、私は、周辺の親しい人達が環境汚染との関連が推定される身体免疫体系異常
が原因の苦痛を見守らざるをえなかった。このような
現実に直面するなかで、私は、従来持ち備えていた考えや態度を根本的に修正せざるを得なかった。生活姿勢は勿論、学問の目的と方法も例外ではなかった。しかし、既存の学問を生態主義的な方向に改めて定位するというのは容易なことではなかった。私は、数年間道を見出せなかった。そうするあいだにホンデヨン(洪大容 1731-1783 李王朝時代の実学者)と出会った。90年代初であった。私は、彼との対話を通じて道を発見することができた。だから、この本はホンデヨンとの出会いが直接的な契機になって実現したと言える"。
( pp. 5-6)

《한국의 생태사상》 도르보게 한국학총서 3 (도르보게 1999년 6월 15일 초판 발행). 저자(서울대학교 인문대학교 국문학과 교수)의 "소개"의 다음 문언에 흥미가 솟아 일독. 

정확히 교토 포럼과의 관련으로 내외의 참고문헌을 찾는 가운데 본서를 만났기 때문에 여러가지 시사를 받았다. 

“이 책은 한국의 전통사상에 내장된 생태주의적 사유를 탐구하기 위해 집필됐다. 나는 20대 이후 자본주의 체제에 비판적이었지만 아직 생태주의적 전망을 인간과 세계를 보는 나의 관점은 주로 변증법 철학에 의존하고 있었다. 또한 인간에 대해 생각하기 시작했다.이 시기 이후 인간을 이해하기 위해서는 '자연적' 연관과의 연결에 대한 고려가 필수적이라는 사실을 지각하게 되었다. 

80년대에 들어가 한국의 생태적 조건은 급속히 악화되고, 나는 주변의 친한 사람들이 환경 오염과 의 관련이 추정되는 신체면역체계 이상이 원인의 고통을 지켜봐야 했다. 생활 자세는 물론, 학문의 목적과 방법도 예외는 아니었다.

그러나, 기존의 학문을 생태주의적인 방향으로 다시 정위하는 것은 쉬운 일이 아니었다. 연간 길을 찾아낼 수 없었다.그렇게 하는 사이에 홍대영(홍대용 1731-1783 이왕조 시대의 실학자)을 만났다.90년대 초였다.나는, 그와의 대화를 통해 길을 발견할 수 있다 그러니까, 이 책은 홍대영과의 만남이 직접적인 계기가 되어 실현되었다고 할 수 있다".








한국의 생태사상  | 돌베개 한국학총서 3
박희병 (지은이)돌베개1999-06-15

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책소개

이 책은 한국의 전통사상 속내에 자리잡은 생태주의적인 사유의 탐색을 위해 쓰여졌다. 한국의 전통사상에 보이는 생태적 지헤는 시적이고 미학적이며, 협소한 인간중심주의를 넘어 인간과 자연, 인간과 만물이 근원적으로 동일한 존재로서 '하늘이 사람과 사물을 끊임없이 낳는 이치'에 따라 생명의 율동을 누리고 있음을 강조한다. 이런 생각의 움직임은 도구적이거나 조작적인 이성으로는 상상하기 어려운 깊이와 근원을 지닌다.

이 책에서는 이규보, 서경덕, 신흠, 홍대용, 박지원 등 심원하고 풍부한 생태적 사유를 보여 주는 다섯 인물의 사상을 탐구하였다. 이들은 누구도 폐쇄적으로 개인의 내면적 깨달음만 추구하지 않았으며, 공동체적인 깨달음과 사회적 비판을 결합시키고 있다. 자연철학과 사회철학의 통일을 의식하고 있는 것이다.

이규보가 우리에게 만물이 근원적으로 하나라는 '만물일류(萬物一類)'의 가르침을 준다면 서경덕은 삶과 죽음에 대한 자연철학적 성찰을 보여 준다. 신흠은 학문이 단순한 지식 추구가 되어서는 안되며 생(生)과 세계에 대한 정신적 깨달음과 연결되어야 한다는 점을 강조한다.

또한 홍대용은 광대한 우주적 차원에서 인간과 사물이 대등하다는 '인물균(人物均)'의 사상을 제기하고 있으며, 박지원은 도를 깨닫는 마음이라 할 '명심(冥心)'에 대한 강조와 글쓰기에 대한 혁신을 통해 인간과 사회와 자연을 통합하고자 하였다.

책속에서

'기(寄)는 부쳐산다는 뜻이다. 그것은, 혹 있기도 하고 혹 없기도 하며, 오는 것과 가는 것이 일정하지 않음을 말한다. 사람은 천지 사이에 참으로 있는 것인가 없는 것인가? 태어나기 이전의 상태로 본다면 본래 없는 것이고, 이미 태어난 상태에서 본다면 틀림없이 있다 하겠다. 그러나 죽게 되면 다시 없음으로 돌아간다. 그렇다고 한다면 사람이 산다는 것은 결국 있고 없는 그 사이에 부쳐사는 것이다.

우 임금이 말하기를 '삶은 부쳐사는 것이고 죽음은 돌아가는 것이다'라고 했지만, 참으로 삶이란 나의 소유가 아니며 하늘과 땅이 잠시 맡겨놓은 형체일 뿐이다. (...) 풀은 꽃이 핀다고 해서 봄에 감사하지 않으며, 나무는 잎이 진다고 해서 가을을 원망하지 않는다. 삶을 잘 영위하는 것이 잘 죽을 수 있는 길이다. 부쳐살 동안 잘 한다면 돌아가는 것 역시 잘 할 수 있으리라.' [신흠, '기재기(寄齋記)', <상촌집> 중에서]  접기


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기존의 학문 체계를 새로운 틀에서 조감하려는 시도는 자칫 섣부르면 욕을 얻어먹기 십상이지만, 이 책에서처럼 분명한 테마를 가지고 충실하게 정리한다면 학술계에 신선한 자극을 줄 수 있을 것이다.
더구나 이 책은 비록 제목은 딱딱하지만 학술권의 연구자들만이 아니라 관심 있는 일반 독자들도 충분히 읽을 수 있을 만큼 난이도에 대한 배려가 곳곳에 배어 있다. 연구논문 형식의 글 속에서 언뜻언뜻 내비치는 지은이의 흥미로운 '추리 과정'까지 읽어낼 수 있다면 이 책에 대한 가장 훌륭한 독법이 아닐까 싶다.

경제학이 없었을 때도 경제는 있었던 것처럼, 생태학이라는 학문은 최근의 것이지만 생태적 관심은 오래 전부터 있었다. 이 책은 그 주제를, 조선 후기의 실학자들은 물론 멀리 고려 후기의 이규보에까지 거슬러올라가 추적하고 있다. 다만 전통적인 생태적 관심들을 소개하는 정도에만 그치고, 그것들이 서로 어떤 관계를 지니며 후대에 어떤 내용으로 이어졌는가 하는 측면은 다루지 못했다는 점이 아쉽다. - 남경태(전문번역가)

저자 및 역자소개
박희병 (지은이) 
서울대학교 국문학과 교수를 역임했다. 국문학 연구의 외연을 사상사 연구와 예술사 연구로까지 확장함으로써 통합인문학으로서의 한국학 연구를 꾀하고 있다. 주요 저서로 『한국고전인물전연구』, 『한국전기소설의 미학』, 『한국의 생태사상』, 『운화와 근대』, 『연암을 읽는다』, 『21세기 한국학, 어떻게 할 것인가』(공저), 『유교와 한국문학의 장르』, 『저항과 아만』, 『연암과 선귤당의 대화』, 『나는 골목길 부처다-이언진 평전』, 『범애와 평등』, 『능호관 이인상 서화평석』, 『통합인문학을 위하여』 등이 있다.
최근작 : <능호관 이인상 연보>,<[큰글자도서] 엄마의 마지막 말들 2 >,<[큰글자도서] 엄마의 마지막 말들 1 > … 총 70종 (모두보기)


박희병(지은이)의 말
이 책은 생태사상을 다루고 있음에도 불구하고 시학(詩學)과 문예론에 대해 각별한 관심을 쏟고 있다. 이는 저자가 문학, 예술과 생태적 마음 간에는 어떤 본질적 연관성이 있다는 생각을 갖고 있기 때문이다. 예술이나 글쓰기는 그 향방에 따라서는 생태주의를 확산하고 고양시키는 하나의 주요한 생활적 실천이 될 수 있을지 모른다는 한 가닥 희망을 저자는 품고 있다.

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In Love with Lou

June 22, 2016
by Frank Beck
1 / 5

Was Lou Andreas-Salomé a writer or a muse, a feminist or a femme fatale? A new film by Cordula Kablitz-Post looks at one of Europe’s most influential intellectuals—and at her complicated life.

New ideas spread across Europe like summer lightning in the years before World War I. Philosophers asked radical questions about our place in the cosmos; novelists and playwrights took up social issues seldom raised before; and psychologists found layers of memory, previously unknown, in the human mind itself.

Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937) bridged those worlds of philosophy, literature and psychology, making contributions to each one. Her novels and criticism challenged readers to rethink gender roles, and she became a pioneering psychoanalyst. She developed close relationships with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud. But Salomé was also a person of profound contradictions. She had a reputation as a femme fatale but spent thirty-three years in an unconsummated marriage. 

Salomé’s story is about the clash between autonomy and intimacy.

She’s a figure who calls out for a film biography, and Cordula Kablitz-Post’s Lou Andreas-Salomé gives her life the serious treatment it deserves. In her hands, Salomé’s story is about the clash between autonomy and intimacy, which was a central struggle throughout her life. The film is grounded firmly in the historical record but selects from it judiciously to keep that theme up front. Titled In Love with Lou for its release in English-speaking countries, it had its premiere at the Shanghai Film Festival in June and opens in German cinemas on June 30.

Louisa von Salomé was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the daughter of German expatriates. The loss of her beloved father as she turned eighteen created a crisis of faith for her, and she plunged into philosophy books for guidance, turning first to Spinoza and then to Kant.

Liv Lisa Fries portrays Salomé as a vivacious teenager, with a wide-open look, seemingly ready for anything. The more she reads, the more she questions the Protestant faith she grew up in. Sitting in church one Sunday with her family, Salomé hears the minister proclaim, “No one must be afraid, for God is everywhere.” From her place in the congregation, she cries out, “Then is God in hell, too?” and strides out of the building. She steps straight into a cloudburst and simply stands there, beaming. She may be drenched, but it’s clear—even if we haven’t read Spinoza—that she’s now at home in an all-embracing world.

Katharina Lorenz is an actress whose thoughts seem to flicker across her face as she thinks them.

The scene shifts to Zurich, where Salomé goes to study, and Katharina Lorenz takes up the role. She is an actress whose thoughts seem to flicker across her face as she thinks them, and, in Salomé, there’s ambivalence and even mischief there. A girl from a family of five brothers, she’s drawn to men but also wary of their dominance. One day she has a fateful meeting in St. Peter’s in Rome with thirty-seven-year old Friedrich Nietzsche (Alexander Scheer), and his friend, Paul Rée (Philipp Hauss). Hoping to wow the beautiful young student, Nietzsche asks, “From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?” Without missing a beat, Salomé says, “I simply came from Zurich.” She won’t be wowed—or cowed.

Soon Salomé has both men seated in a confessional and insists they name their sins. The list is lengthy but fails to mention any lustful thoughts or transgressions. Lifting an eyebrow, Salomé asks, “Nothing more?” Actually, there is: both Rée and Nietzsche eventually propose to her. But Salomé has something else in mind—a platonic fellowship in which the three of them live and study together.

Throughout the next summer, Nietzsche tries to press his case, but Salomé says a sexual relationship must be based on equality, whereas marriage places a woman in a subordinate role. The heated exchanges between the two actors demonstrate how evenly matched Salomé and Nietzsche were—in wills as well as their wits.

The scene in which Salomé rejects Rée’s proposal sums up her dilemma perfectly. It’s a quiet street in Rome, very late at night, and the two have been walking amiably along, even tottering playfully at the top of a wall. For Salomé, being out late, unchaperoned, with Rée, confirms their special friendship; he thinks it means something else. But his proposal of marriage seems to comes out of nowhere; Salomé rejects him; and he turns abruptly away, leaving her alone beneath a streetlight. “Why can’t you,” she asks in exasperation, “think of me as a man?”

In fact, the threesome soon dissolved, largely because Nietzsche’s sister intervened, yet Salomé and Rée did work out an arrangement. For several years they shared an apartment in Berlin, with Salomé supporting them both as a novelist. And then quite suddenly, at twenty-five, she met Friedrich Carl Andreas (Merab Ninidze), an unimpressive scholar with a compelling personality, and agreed to marry him, but on the condition the marriage not be consummated. Rée was devastated and never saw her again.

Ten years later, Salomé met the love of her life. He was Rainer Maria Rilke, a twenty-one-year-old art history student. Rilke pursued her with a mixture of diffidence and determination that Salomé found irresistible, perhaps because his youthfulness reversed the age differences she had known with Nietzsche and Andreas.  

Rilke pursued Salomé with a mixture of diffidence and determination that she found irresistible.

Julius Feldmeier plays Rilke, and his scenes with Lorenz have the quiet intensity of two people finding a joy together they haven’t known before. They embark on what Salomé would later call “the best summer of my life”—three months together in the Bavarian countryside. But their idyll doesn’t last. When Rilke has a breakdown during a later trip to Russia, she decides their romance is too demanding for her and unhealthy for him, and, painfully, they part.

Salomé goes on to have a series of lovers over the next decade but grows increasingly worried about her psychic health. In 1911 she travels to Vienna, seeking advice from Sigmund Freud (Harald Schott). With his help, she is able to uncover the youthful trauma that had made it so difficult for her to build relationships. She and Freud eventually become good friends, and Salomé begins her career as one of the first female psychoanalysts.

Co-written by Kablitz-Post and Susanne Hertel, the script tells the story from the perspective of the 1930s, when an ill and lonely Salomé (Nicole Heester) struggles to write her memoirs with the help of Ernst Pfeiffer (Matthias Lier), a young scholar. That structure lets Salomé comment on her younger actions and on their consequences. It also shows the two forming a warm bond different from any of her earlier relationships. (Breon Mitchell’s 1990 translation of the memoirs is out of print; this film may bring it back.)

Katharina Lorenz is a sympathetic Salomé, with Fries and Heesters equally good as her younger and older selves. Everything about the production is beautifully done, but special credit goes to Matthias Schellenberg, whose photography revels in the lovingly re-created period interiors and lush landscapes. The film is as sensual as it is smart—appropriately so, since Salomé’s own descriptions of nature are some of the most memorable parts of her books.

One of Salomé’s early biographers, H. F. Peters, pointed out that, while many modern philosophers preached freedom of the spirit, she was the one who lived it. Not that she needed their tutelage for the attempt: at twenty-one, she vowed “to make my own life according to myself, whatever may come of it. In this I have no principle to represent, but something much more wonderful—something that is inside oneself and is hot with sheer life, and rejoices and wants to get out.”

Lou Andreas-Salomé
 
Writing
 
Film
 
Friedrich Nietzsche
 
Philosophy
 
Literature
 
Psychology
 
Rainer Maria Rilke
 
Sigmund Freud

Frank Beck is a New York–based writer and photographer. He reviews poetry for The Manhattan Review; his photographs have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. His blog, “On the wing,” can be found at www.diehoren.com. 

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Nietzsche Paperback – October 16, 2001
by Lou Salome (Author), Siegfried Mandel (Author)
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This English translation of Friedrich Nietzsche in seinen Werken offers a rare, intimate view of the philosopher by Lou Salomé, a free-thinking, Russian-born intellectual to whom Nietzsche proposed marriage at only their second meeting.
Published in 1894 as its subject languished in madness, Salomé's book rode the crest of a surge of interest in Nietzsche's iconoclastic philosophy. She discusses his writings and such biographical events as his break with Wagner, attempting to ferret out the man in the midst of his works.

Salomé's provocative conclusion -- that Nietzsche's madness was the inevitable result of his philosophical views -- generated considerable controversy. Nietzsche's sister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, dismissed the book as a work of fantasy. Yet the philosopher's longtime acquaintance Erwin Rohde wrote, "Nothing better or more deeply experienced or perceived has ever been written about Nietzsche."

Siegfried Mandel's extensive introduction examines the circumstances that brought Lou Salomé and Nietzsche together and the ideological conflicts that drove them apart.

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University of Illinois Press
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October 16, 2001
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Leo Brown
4.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic, insightful, brilliant [and flawed] read.Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2018
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One of the things that always stuck with me in Nietzche's work was the 'taunt', especially in his later works, that part of a full absorption of his philosophy of life was [paraphrasing] the "Denial of Zarathustra" - and of Nietzsche himself, before you could return to him. After reading this book, I feel that Salome helped me better understand why that was a point that stuck.

This book is less a biography of a man or the relationship between Salome and Nietzsche; much more so a summary of the relationship of Nietzsche the man, the work he produced and speculation on how those two were destined to be entwined. This is where my review comes up short of 5 stars. Don't get me wrong - this is an INCREDIBLE read, and I would strongly recommend it to anyone who is familiar with Nietzsche's work and wants to better understand what may have been influencing his brilliant observations. I felt, though, that while Salome's observations were often illuminating, she fell into the trap of romanticizing the contradictions and obvious biases in his work - she was his friend, after all. She even romanticizes his descent into madness as the logical conclusion of a man pushing himself to the edges of reason in the human mind and experience.

While some of these conclusions interesting to think about, I just can't agree with all of them. The intellectual titan that she was obviously close to was shown, in this work - and specifically in the introduction - as a man just as prone to envy, jealousy, revenge, and hypocrisy as the rest of us. It's unquestionable, if you are an astute student of Nietzsche, that he let those things bleed into his work, and in that, they are tainted by a man that - like us - was human - all too human. I believe Nietzsche knew that as well during his life, and this knowing lent to his demand for the denial of his work and person before it could be fully absorbed.

Something else that struck me - especially in the latter third of the book, as she discusses Nietzsche's return to mysticism, acting on faith and the metaphysical unknowables, was how similar some of her insights were to the insights of C.G. Jung on Nietzsche's work. Given how thorough the latter's research on Nietzsche was, I wouldn't be surprised at all if Salome influenced some of Jung's own points of view [on Nietzsche, and later his own work] with this book.

In summary, I enjoyed this read from beginning to end, but would caution against overindulgence of the author's convincing tone as relates to the conclusions Nietzsche was coming to [intentionally or not] toward the end of his productive years.

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Stanley Lippman
5.0 out of 5 stars why would you read this book?Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2008
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you would not read this book to understand nietzche's philosophy. it is not even clear to me why anyone needs to understand neitzche's philosophy. but lou salome is this crazy incredible lady. 

while married she become lovers with rilke and remained his intimate correspondent for all his life. she became intimate with nietsche. and later conquered freud, so to speak. so to me this book is an interesting artifact of this incredible woman's mind -- you don't read this book except as a way of knowing salome's mindfullness after rilke and nietzsche. that is, you read this book to learn something that you have to extrapolate from and fit into your life. it is not a passive reading. 

it is not school learning or becoming educated. it is trying to understand what sort of mind a woman would have that has done such gloriously free and courageous acts such as standing and lying toe2toe with three of the most visionary humanitarian thinkers -- it's an artifact. you read this to be your own archeologist into the human psyche. the content itself literally is of little interest if you want to become an expert in philosophical thinking in order to be a professional. this book isn't that at all. nobody would publish something like this today -- that is, without the hindsight of knowing who nietzsche and salome are now -- at the time this was published, that wasn't apparent, and without that apparentness, this book is no longer a kind of book our educated culture tolerates -- it is too subjective and does not follow any accepted rules of discourse that are recognized by our cultural canon. that is, you don't read this book for any of the reasons it was written or published. you read it because of who nietsche and salome turned out to be in terms of our intellectual flowering. of course, he was destroyed by his sister, who allowed the fascists to make shameful use of him the same way they made ill-use of evolution to justify genocide. you take nietzsche and darwin and if you are powerful enough you get 70-100 million dead without anyone believing they were not morally justified in their actions. nowadays, people seem to once again need religion to justify such pain and suffering for personal advantage. so i think everyone should buy this book and try to make sense of its author -- this is after rilke and N, but i think before freud. a snapshot of a brillian mindful woman articulating her extraordinary experiences ...

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William C.
5.0 out of 5 stars What Nietzsche went through to create his philosophy from someone who was there.Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2018
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Unlike any other book on/about/by Nietzsche I have read, this one has a direct and personal angle. Here is an intelligent, educated woman writing about a man SHE KNEW and whose work she studied and helped him with. Her book is well-written, clear and lacking in any technical jargon, either philosophical or psychological. Not a bad choice for someone who has some familiarity with Nietzsche's work and wants to see just who he was.

She paints a clear and believable portrait of a man who created his philosophy by wrestling with his own life, it's joys and pain. Thus we see not just that his work was incomparable, but the process that brought it into being was incomparable. As another reviewer said, an excellent addition to Nietzsche studies, especially showing what he went through to create what he did. There are those who will point out that Nietzsche's writing of "the overman", "the warrior" and such types is ironic considering he was polite and sickly. But it turns out in his own life, in his own mind, he was fighting a battle.

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The Dhimmi Philosopher
5.0 out of 5 stars Readers of this book would like "Jenna's Flaw"Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2015
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One of Nietzsche's friends wrote of this book: "Nothing better or more deeply experienced or perceived has ever been written about Nietzsche." I agree. I had put off reading Salome's biography for a long time, but I'm glad I finally read it. It offers a very unique perspective of Nietzsche from somebody who knew him intimately. Salome says that Nietzsche's philosophy was an expression of his psychology and that he went mad because of his philosophical ideas. It's a very controversial thesis, but it's a fascinating one nonetheless.

Readers of this biography may also like "Jenna's Flaw," a novel about Nietzsche, the death of God, the crumbling of Western civilization, and what the West can do to stop it.

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Humberto Batista Leal
5.0 out of 5 stars Nietzsche na perspectiva de uma psicanalista admirável.Reviewed in Brazil on August 7, 2022
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Nietzsche na perspectiva de uma psicanalista admirável. O essencial, reconheço, é meditar a filosofia nietzschiana, mas não há dúvida: esse livro aprofunda o entendimento de Nietzsche. Sugiro ler simultaneamente com o Nietzsche de Gianni Vattimo.
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George Mori
5.0 out of 5 stars The truth about NietzscheReviewed in Canada on September 28, 2019
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Any follower of Nietzsche has to include Salome's book as a must read. It is the only narrative that includes a deep reading of his works combined with a face-to-face person-to person encounter. The latter is the most important..Of all the secondary sources on Nietzsche her's is the most insightful and the closest to the truth of who Nietzsche really was: a genius and a puppet put on the world stage to articulate a philosophy that would justify right wing reactionary idiocy.
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ANA MARÍA OCHOA VILLALBA
3.0 out of 5 stars Nietzsche al desnudoReviewed in Spain on May 12, 2019
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Lou Salomé conoció mejor que nadie a Nietzsche, fue su discípula y escribió sus impresiones más personales sobre el filósofo. Dibujó a un hombre enfermo, mayor y en declive. Nada que ver con su superhombre, pero de inteligencia sutil y brillante y una gran sensibilidad. Nada que ver con el proto-nazi que muchos han querido ver en sus teorías (Nietzsche es un poeta, usa una retórica tan literaria que siempre es ambiguo y sugerente, pero no era un monstruo sólo un hombre que deseaba estar sano y disfrutar los placeres de la vida con intensidad y delicadez a la vez...
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