by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788449500534
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«El caminante y su sombra» is the philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche, published by M.E. Editores, S.L. in paperback (171 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together aphorisms and reflections in which Nietzsche addresses morality, truth, and the human condition. He criticizes those who display their pain to gain others' compassion and proposes a voluntary discipline aimed at health, a demanding program of self-knowledge.
Originally published in 1880 as «Der Wanderer und sein Schatten»; this edition is from 1994, translated by Luis Díaz Marín, in the collection «Clásicos de siempre» (no. 53).
For philosophy readers and those who want to approach Nietzsche through short texts.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879. He afterward lived as an independent writer, spending much of his life in relative solitude and financial insecurity while moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France in search of climates that might alleviate his condition, and in the following decade, he completed much of his core writing. In 1889, aged 44, he suffered a neurological collapse, and thereafter a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia; he lived out his remaining 11 years, first under the care of his mother, and later his sister, until his death. His works and his philosophy have fostered not only extensive scholarship but also much popular interest.
