Irvin Yalom

När Nietzsche Grät skrevs 1992 av Irvin Yalom. Han är född den 13 juni 1931 i Washington DC. Yalom är också Emeritus i Psykiatri på Stanford University, en existentialist, och känd psykolog. Boken utspelar sig huvudsakligen i Wien, Österrike där Dr Josef Breuer har sin läkarmottagning. En dag mottar Dr Breuer ett brev …

Written in Irv Yalom's inimitable story-telling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our anxiety. …

When sixteen-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmaster’s office for anti-Semitic remarks he made during a school speech, he is forced, as punishment, to memorize passages about Spinoza from the autobiography of the German poet Goethe. Rosenberg is stunned to discover that Goethe, his idol, was a great …