In this blog post, we’ll explore Rainer Maria Rilke’s life and literary career, as well as provide commentary on his major works, organized chronologically and by title. Rilke’s Life and Literature Rainer Maria Rilke was born on December 4, 1875, in Prague. At the time, Prague was the center of German-ruled Bohemia, and Rilke’s family experienced an early rift due to the personality...
Who was Nietzsche, and how have his ideas influenced Europe today?
In this blog post, I will briefly summarize Nietzsche’s life and ideas, as well as the impact and significance he has had on Europe today. Nietzsche and the Intellectuals of the 20th Century It is fair to say that Nietzsche is the most magnificent mountain range of thought towering over the century in which we live, and that the sweet spring that has nourished today’s Europe originated...