Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power : A Biography of Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche Paperback / softback

by Carol Diethe

Part of the International Nietzsche Studies series

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A penetrating study of the sister who betrayed and endangered her famous brother's legacyIn 1901, a year after her brother Friedrich's death, Elisabeth FÃ¶rster-Nietzsche published The Will to Power, a hasty compilation of writings he had never intended for print.

In Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power, Carol Diethe contends that FÃ¶rster-Nietzsche's own will to power and her desire to place herself--not her brother--at the center of cultural life in Germany are centrally responsible for Nietzsche's reputation as a belligerent and proto-Fascist thinker. Offering a new look at Nietzsche's sister from a feminist perspective, this spirited and erudite biography examines why Elisabeth FÃ¶rster-Nietzsche recklessly consorted with anti-Semites, from her own husband to Hitler himself, out of convenience and a desire for revenge against a brother whose love for her waned after she caused the collapse of his friendship with Lou SalomÃ©.

The book also examines their family dynamics, Nietzsche's dismissal of his sister's early writing career, and the effects of limited education on intelligent women.

Diethe concludes by detailing FÃ¶rster-Nietzsche's brief marriage and her subsequent colonial venture in Paraguay, maintaining that her sporadic anti-Semitism was, like most things in her life, an expedient tool for cultivating personal success and status. A volume in the series International Nietzsche Studies, edited by Richard Schacht