{"product_id":"9781250234681","title":"Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection.\" --Heller McAlpin, NPR.org \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2018 by NPR. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Lit Hub's 15 Books You Should Read in September and one of \u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of Fall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich Nietzsche\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThus Spoke Zarathustra\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust as Kaag’s acclaimed debut, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Philosophy: A Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e, seamlessly wove together his philosophical discoveries with his search for meaning,\u003ci\u003e Hiking with Nietzsche \u003c\/i\u003eis 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, \u003ci\u003eHiking with Nietzsche\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370435874877,"sku":"9781250234681","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781250234681_p0.jpg?v=1771590054","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781250234681","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}