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Im Kampf um Gott

Fresh off her break with Nietzsche, Lou decided to create her own salon in Paris ansträngande to be like Malwida, but her personality was more typically narcissistic. For example, she did some triangulation to make Rée jealous bygd stating that Nietzsche had a &#;beautiful mouth.&#; Ludwig Hüter, a student of Neo-Kantian Friedrich Paulsen, was a correspondent for Malwida. &#;In his report to Malwida he called Lou &#;too odd a girl to be easily made out&#;a likable, winning, truly feminine being who renounces all womanly resources in the struggle for existence and instead takes up men&#;s weapons with a certain harsh exclusiveness. skarp judging and, as it turns out, condemning of everything; no trace of mercy, so dear to woman; klar resoluteness in every word, yet her character only appears the more onesided for being so resolute in its one direction; music, art, poetry are discussed, to be sure, but gauged by a strange standard: not pure joy over their beauty, pleasure

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Lou Salomé () : Philosophy of Life

1 Katharina Kraus: Lou Salomé () Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition, edited by Kristin Gjesdal and Dalia Nassar. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Preprint – Author’s Original Version Please cite the published version. Lou Andreas-Salomé (–) was one of the most controversial female intellectuals of her day. Born in Russia, she was one of the most prolific women writers in Germany at the turn of the century, producing both literary works and essays on topics of religion, philosophy, sexuality, and psychoanalysis. She maintained numerous friendships with intellectuals of her time, lived an unconventional lifestyle and had several love affairs, while she was married to Friedrich Carl Andreas (–), with whom she refused to have a sexual relationship. Among her close friends, for shorter or longer periods of time, were the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche (–) and Paul Rée (–), as well as th

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by Asia Leonardi for the Carl Kruse Blog

She was a thinker, a philosopher, a writer, the first woman to become a psychoanalyst: but more than anything, Lou Von Salomé was a free woman, independent and careless of people’s thoughts. Her magnetism enchanted illustrious figures of the time: from Paul Rée to Friedrich Nietzsche, from Frederick Carl Andreas to Friedrich Pineles, from Rainer Maria Rilke to Sigmund Freud.

Her charm cultivated and inspired some of the greatest minds of the last century. But Lou was not merely a muse, whose beauty and magnetism could inspire others, she was an intellectual force in her own right.

Lou von Salomé was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on February 12, , in a mostly male family and was preceded by five brothers. Thanks to the multicultural variety of the family, she spoke fluent Russian, French, and German as a child. And as a child, she distinguished herself for her passion for reading and study, and one of her teachers, Pastor Hendrik