HIKING WITH NIETZSCHE

"A stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection." --Heller McAlpin, NPR.org

Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR. One of Lit Hub's 15 Books You Should Read in September and one of Outside's Best Books of Fall

A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich Nietzsche

Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys—one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen years later, in radically different circumstances: he is now a husband and father, and his wife and small child are in tow. Kaag sets off for the Swiss peaks above Sils Maria where Nietzsche wrote his landmark work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both of Kaag’s journeys are made in search of the wisdom at the core of Nietzsche’s philosophy, yet they deliver him to radically different interpretations and, more crucially, revelations about the human condition.

Just as Kaag’s acclaimed debut, American Philosophy: A Love Story, seamlessly wove together his philosophical discoveries with his search for meaning, Hiking with Nietzsche is a fascinating exploration not only of Nietzsche’s ideals but of how his experience of living relates to us as individuals in the twenty-first century. Bold, intimate, and rich with insight, Hiking with Nietzsche is about defeating complacency, balancing sanity and madness, and coming to grips with the unobtainable. As Kaag hikes, alone or with his family, but always with Nietzsche, he recognizes that even slipping can be instructive. It is in the process of climbing, and through the inevitable missteps, that one has the chance, in Nietzsche’s words, to “become who you are."

„O carte stimulatoare despre combaterea disperarii si a complacentei cu reflectia de cautare”. --Heller McAlpin, NPR.org a fost desemnata cea mai buna carte din 2018 de catre NPR. Una dintre cele 15 carti ale lui Lit Hub pe care ar trebui sa le cititi in septembrie si una dintre cele mai bune carti ale toamnei din exterior O calatorie alpina revelatorie in spiritul marelui ganditor romantic Friedrich Nietzsche Drumetii cu Nietzsche: a deveni cine esti este o poveste despre doua calatorii filosofice - una realizata de John Kaag era un tanar introspectiv de nouasprezece ani, ceilalti saptesprezece ani mai tarziu, in circumstante radical diferite: acum este sot si tata, iar sotia si copilul sau sunt in frau.