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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherBlackstone Audio, Incorporated
ISBN-101504654692
ISBN-139781504654692
eBay Product ID (ePID)245805715
Product Key Features
Publication Year2015
Book TitleWhen Nietzsche Wept
TopicLiterary, Historical
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorIrvin D. Yalom
FormatCompact Disc
Dimensions
Item Length5.7 In.
Item Width5.2 In.
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsA stimulating dip into the pools of nineteenth-century philosophy, psychology, and culture. A delectable fantasy., When Nietzsche Wept is the best dramatization of a great thinker's thought since Sartre's The Freud Scenario ., In this intelligent, fully imagined tale, Yalom accurately evokes the encapsulated world of Breuer and Nietzsche's sessions.
Number of Volumes10 vols.
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition
SynopsisIn nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal despair, unable to find a cure for the headaches and other ailments that plague him.When he agrees to treat Nietzsche with his experimental "talking cure," Breuer never expects that he too will find solace in their sessions. Only through facing his own inner demons can the gifted healer begin to help his patient. In When Nietzsche Wept, Irvin Yalom blends fact and fiction, atmosphere and suspense to unfold an unforgettable story about the redemptive power of friendship., In nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal despair, unable to find a cure for the headaches and other ailments that plague him. When he agrees to treat Nietzsche with his experimental "talking cure," Breuer never expects that he too will find solace in their sessions. Only through facing his own inner demons can the gifted healer begin to help his patient. In When Nietzsche Wept , Irvin Yalom blends fact and fiction, atmosphere and suspense to unfold an unforgettable story about the redemptive power of friendship.