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Rüdiger Safranski

Rüdiger Safranski is a German philosopher and writer, and the author of biographies of Friedrich Schiller, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Martin Heidegger. He lives in Berlin.

Rüdiger Safranski

Rüdiger Safranski is a German philosopher and writer, and the author of biographies of Friedrich Schiller, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Martin Heidegger. He lives in Berlin.

Books by Rüdiger Safranski

  • Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography

    Rüdiger Safranski, Shelley Frisch

    Paperback, 2002

    A seminal biography, essential reading for anyone studying the philosophy of history's most enigmatic and fascinating thinker.
  • Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

    Rüdiger Safranski, David Dollenmayer

    Paperback, 2019

    This sterling biography of Germany’s greatest writer presents Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as if we are seeing him for the first time.
  • Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

    Rüdiger Safranski, David Dollenmayer

    E Book, 2017

    This sterling biography of Germany’s greatest writer presents Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as if we are seeing him for the first time.