Summary of the book "When Nietzsche Wept"
- Irvin Yalom is an American existential psychiatrist. In his book "When Nietzsche Wept" he narrates the fictional story of a doctor Josef Breuer and the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
- The book starts with a meeting between a friend of Nietzsche with Breuer to ask him to urgently help Nitzsche as he is at the brink of suicide and his death will be a great death for humanity due to his bright future in philosophy.
- Breuer decides to help Nietzsche but his own personal problems become more exaggerated along the way of consultations.
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