More than a century after his death in 1900, Nietzsche remains a seminal figure in the history of European intellectual life. Celebrated as a liberator by some, maligned as a pernicious influence by o
In this new biography of Richard Wagner, Joachim Kohler draws on social and political analysis, documentary interpretation and psychological insights to paint a rounded picture of Wagner as both a con
This book presents an absorbing account of the bizarre and fluctuating relationship between the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the composer Richard Wagner, and his wife Cosima. Nietzsche was 25 when
