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Publisher's Summary
A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich Nietzsche.
Hiking with Nietzsche is a tale of two philosophical journeys - one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of 19, the other 17 years later and in quite different circumstances: as a husband and father. His wife and small child in tow, Kaag sets off for the Swiss peaks above Sils-Maria, where Nietzsche routinely summered, and where he wrote his mysterious landmark work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both journeys are made in search of the wisdom at the core of Nietzsche's philosophy, but 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 and 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 21st 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 "[B]ecome who you are".
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-17-19
Read "I am Dynamite" instead.
You will not find much insight into Nietzsche here. However, I loved the new Nietzsche bio I am dynamite.
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- Raleigh
- 01-05-19
fear, power and uncertainty
friedrich nietzsche is often referenced and quoted but less often read
john kagg has written a book to make nietzsche more approachable
kaag's youthful infatuation with nietzsche has matured into an adult understanding
nietzche's focus on fear and power and uncertainty resonate with 20th century readers
kaag helps unravel the source of these enduring themes in nietzche's troubled life
the book was written from the swiss town of sils maria, nietzche's home for 7 summers
the book serves to make nietzsche accessible with out trying to make him affable
i was particularly interested in nietzche's relationship with his lutheran pastor father
if you find these issues more than interesting then you'll find john kaag's book more than helpful
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- August
- 09-28-18
Another great book by John Kaag
Great second audiobook of the author. He continues to show us philosophy as a practical application for our lives. Thanks for bringing Nietzsche to life!
The narrator does a superb job...I highly recommend.
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- sanfran
- 12-18-19
Strong start and then it just would not end
It’s started off well and then it just went on and on and on and most of the last 2/3 of the book was pointless. I was really hopeful about additional insight on life and becoming who you are, but there really isn’t much here. Little to no meaningful insight outside of become who you are by becoming who you are.
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- John Bardsley
- 01-25-19
Good read together with Nietzsche
This is a nice book, combining a history of Nietzsche's career and life with a travel diary of the author's trip to Nietzsche's haunts in the Alps. I read it together with some of Nietzsche's writings and the combo was a pleasure.
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- Lance Longmire
- 02-19-19
Both nostalgic and contemporary
I remembered who I was becoming as a twenty year old kid (and still am as a middle aged man). Thanks for the reminder to keep interpreting and understanding.
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- A&DT
- 07-09-22
A great book, academic value without an academic style
This presented a very interesting personal experience of Nietzsche by an academic mixed with his own personal struggles. It provided me with new insights into Nietzsche and was an easy listen. I listened to it while running, so for me it was "Running with *Hiking with Nietzsche*". The book did end fairly abruptly though, the author's personal conflicts seemed unresolved even in a story sense and his thoughts on Nietzsche were never summarized, maybe a second volume is in order! But even without those things, the book was excellent and has applications both in life and in academic philosophy.
A good narration but I generally wish the author themself would narrate.
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- Pasternak
- 03-21-22
Nietzsche saved my life!
I enjoyed the biographical material about Nietzsche very much. However, I found the parallel journey - the author’s attempt to retrace the the philosopher’s transmutational journey through the alps - kind of embarrassing. The trembling, adolescent confessionary never stopped reminding me of Dwayne (Christopher Walken) in ‘Annie Hall’. Every mention of suicide in the book left me mumbling to myself - I have to go now, John, because I’m due back on the planet Earth. John’s medicated. He seems to have an eating disorder. He’s impulsive. Revery often turns to suicidal ideation and reckless behavior. He expresses resentment for two wive’s for pushing him toward responsible behavior. The claim is, reading Nietzsche saved John’s life. But nothing written ever gives the reader any sense that John recovers beyond simply accepting himself as he is ( I mean, he says he’s still taking the little pink pills at the end of the book). Nietzsche? Really? I believe it might be more appropriate to give John’s wife and daughter all of the credit for helping this man walk the earth. This book would have been far more interesting to me if John had stayed home. Fritz in the Alps is wonderful stuff. I hiked while listening to this audiobook. And I had a good time with it despite the awkward autobiographical annotation. Check it out.
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- chetyarbrough.blog
- 06-08-21
SUPERMAN-SUPERWOMAN
Like Mary-Louise Parker’s memoir “Dear Mr. You”, “Hiking with Nietzsche” is nearly returned by this listener. Both memoirs, as the word suggests, are personal. However, Parker’s memoir is burdened by Parker’s self-absorption. “Dear Mr. You” reminds this listener of an actress who chose not to appear at the stage-door in New York after a forgettable stage performance. Parker is a good writer, but she needs a better subject.
“Hiking with Nietzsche” is not overly burdened by its writer’s self-absorption. Kaag offers some clarity to Nietzschean philosophical belief. However, clarity is only partially delivered. Some details revealed by Kaag of Nietzsche’s life are helpful.
Where Kaag fails is–in inadequately correlating his family life with Nietzschean philosophy. Kaag notes that Nietzsche spent a great deal of time in the mountains that Kaag and his family are visiting. He retraces some of Nietzsche’s peripatetic life in Basel and its surroundings. “Hiking with Nietzsche” is a disappointment but not a waste of time.
There is something to pursue in philosophy whether one agrees with Nietzsche or not. If “God is Dead” can man be moral? It seems doubtful based on world history. On the other hand, all species continue to evolve and adapt. Earth’s environment is no longer taken for granted. Are there supermen and women in our future?
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- George
- 08-28-21
hiking, philosophy, life and death
I hike. Your mind wanders when you hike. "trail thoughts". Nietche knew this, or rather lived it.
For me, this was an introduction to his thought (and Herman Hesse) in an accessible way I could relate to.
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- By: Eduardo Strauch, Mireya Soriano, Jennie Erikson - translator
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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It’s the unfathomable modern legend that has become a testament to the resilience of the human spirit: the 1972 Andes plane crash and the Uruguayan rugby teammates who suffered 72 days among the dead and dying. It was a harrowing test of endurance that ended in a miraculous rescue. Now comes the unflinching and emotional true story by one of the men who found his way home. Four decades after the tragedy, a climber discovered survivor Eduardo Strauch’s wallet and returned it to him. It was a gesture that compelled Strauch to finally “break the silence of the mountains.”
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Helps to have background info
- By TiffanyD on 08-04-20
By: Eduardo Strauch, and others
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The Hidden Spring
- A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
- By: Mark Solms
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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For Mark Solms, one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how consciousness comes about has been a lifetime's quest. Scientists consider it the "hard problem" because it seems an impossible task to understand why we feel a subjective sense of self and how it arises in the brain. Venturing into the elementary physics of life, Solms has now arrived at an astonishing answer. In The Hidden Spring, he brings forward his discovery in accessible language and graspable analogies.
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Fascinating
- By Aston on 04-26-21
By: Mark Solms
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Atlas of a Lost World
- By: Craig Childs
- Narrated by: Craig Childs
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America 20,000 years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. This book upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were.
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Blaaaa
- By Josh NJ on 07-26-18
By: Craig Childs
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Hello Darkness, My Old Friend
- How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man’s Blindness into an Extraordinary Vision for Life
- By: Sanford D. Greenberg, Art Garfunkel - introduction
- Narrated by: Art Garfunkel
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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The remarkable and inspiring story of a Columbia undergrad from a poor Jewish family who, after losing his eyesight to disease during his junior year, finds the power to break through the darkness and fulfill his vision for a life of great professional success and distinguished public service.
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Fantastic!
- By Suzanne on 10-07-20
By: Sanford D. Greenberg, and others
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The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs
- By: Tristan Gooley
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The ultimate guide to what the land, sun, moon, stars, trees, plants, animals, sky and clouds can reveal - when you know what to look for. Includes over 850 outdoor clues and signs. This top 10 best seller is the result of Tristan Gooley's two decades of pioneering outdoors experience and six years of instructing, researching and writing. It includes lots of outdoor clues and signs that will not be found in any other book in the world.
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not quite
- By Paul in Tucson on 01-21-20
By: Tristan Gooley
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American Philosophy
- A Love Story
- By: John Kaag
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In American Philosophy, John Kaag - a disillusioned philosopher at sea in his marriage and career - stumbles upon a treasure trove of rare books on an old estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that once belonged to the Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. The library includes notes from Whitman, inscriptions from Frost, and first editions of Hobbes, Descartes, and Kant. As he begins to catalog and preserve these priceless books, Kaag rediscovers the very tenets of American philosophy.
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Awesome Book! But..
- By Kye Sonne on 04-02-17
By: John Kaag
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Out of the Silence
- After the Crash
- By: Eduardo Strauch, Mireya Soriano, Jennie Erikson - translator
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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It’s the unfathomable modern legend that has become a testament to the resilience of the human spirit: the 1972 Andes plane crash and the Uruguayan rugby teammates who suffered 72 days among the dead and dying. It was a harrowing test of endurance that ended in a miraculous rescue. Now comes the unflinching and emotional true story by one of the men who found his way home. Four decades after the tragedy, a climber discovered survivor Eduardo Strauch’s wallet and returned it to him. It was a gesture that compelled Strauch to finally “break the silence of the mountains.”
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Helps to have background info
- By TiffanyD on 08-04-20
By: Eduardo Strauch, and others
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A World on the Wing
- The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
- By: Scott Weidensaul
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the highest mountains, or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch has exploded. What we've learned of these key migrations is nothing short of extraordinary. This breathtaking work of nature writing also introduces listeners to those scientists, researchers, and bird lovers trying to preserve global migratory patterns in the face of climate change and other environmental challenges.
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Fantastic book for any nature enthusiast
- By FernT on 05-23-21
By: Scott Weidensaul
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Hello World
- Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
- By: Hannah Fry
- Narrated by: Hannah Fry
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Hello World takes us on a tour through the good, the bad, and the downright ugly of the algorithms that surround us on a daily basis. Mathematician Hannah Fry reveals their inner workings, showing us how algorithms are written and implemented, and demonstrates the ways in which human bias can literally be written into the code. By weaving in relatable, real world stories with accessible explanations of the underlying mathematics that power algorithms, Hello World helps us to determine their power, expose their limitations, and examine whether they really are improvements.
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Disappointing and meandering book
- By Sc on 02-10-20
By: Hannah Fry
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Neurofitness
- A Brain Surgeon's Secrets to Boost Performance & Unleash Creativity
- By: Dr. Rahul Jandial
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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This fascinating book draws on Dr. Jandial's broad-spectrum expertise and brings together the best of various fields - surgery, science, brain structure, the conscious mind - all to explain the bigger picture of brain health and rejuvenation. It is a journey into his operating room, around the world on his surgical missions, inside his laboratory, and to the outer edges of neuroscience to reveal the latest brain breakthroughs that are turning science fiction into reality, translating their implications for everyday life.
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excellent description of the state of Neuroscience
- By voxy on 07-28-19
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Escaping Gravity
- My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age
- By: Lori Garver
- Narrated by: Lori Garver
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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The inside look at how the battle of the space billionaires began and why it matters, Escaping Gravity is former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver’s firsthand account of how a handful of revolutionaries outmaneuvered the system of political patronage and bureaucracy that threatened the space agency. The success of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, and countless other commercial space efforts were preceded by decades of work by a group of people Garver calls “space pirates.”
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An important story, well told!
- By Mach5 on 08-15-22
By: Lori Garver
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Skeleton Keys
- The Secret Life of Bone
- By: Riley Black (Brian Switek)
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Author Brian Switek is a charming and enthusiastic osteological raconteur. In this natural and cultural history of bone, he explains where our skeletons came from, what they do inside us, and what others can learn about us when these wondrous assemblies of mineral and protein are all we've left behind.
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Awesome Book, Read Very Well
- By Christine on 04-30-19
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Heaven and Hell
- My Life in the Eagles
- By: Don Felder
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
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The Eagles are the best-selling, and arguably the tightest-lipped, American group ever. Now band member and guitarist Don Felder finally breaks the Eagles’ years of public silence to take fans behind the scenes. He shares every part of the band’s wild ride, from the pressure-packed recording studios and trashed hotel rooms to the tension-filled courtrooms and from the joy of writing powerful new songs to the magic of performing in huge arenas packed with roaring fans.
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The "Real" Story Behind The Eagles
- By Peter on 05-27-21
By: Don Felder