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Troy Southgate’s ZARATHUSTRA’S LEGACY: RUDOLF STEINER AND FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE is now in stock. The book is 150 pages in length and costs just 24 EUROS with free postage to anywhere in the world. The PayPal address is blackfrontpress@yahoo.co.uk and you can find more details below. Cover by Francisco Albanese Pastene

RUDOLF Steiner (1861—1925) was first introduced to the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) in 1889 and was immediately fascinated with the German’s unique style of prose and his no-nonsense approach to philosophy. Six years later Steiner produced his ‘Friedrich Nietzsche: Fighter for Freedom’ (1895), a lesser known volume in which he attempted to assess the value of Nietzsche’s writings in the context of his own developing ideas. Steiner claimed that by this time he had already cultivated a number of important concepts that resemble those of Nietzsche himself and this was possibly due to both men having stood in awe of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832). For Steiner, Nietzsche was a “restless striver toward the heights” and whilst, to many, his thought may appear contradictory – not simply between one book and another, but occasionally within the same text – he was pursuing a steady trajectory that would change the face of European thought forever. Steiner also became acquainted with Nietzsche’s sister, Elizabeth, who later became a Nazi sympathiser, and it was through her that the Austrian was able to meet Friedrich at the very end of his life. Before long, Steiner realised that Elizabeth was out to distort her sibling’s ideas and therefore sought to correct these mischaracterisations by producing a series of writings that would demonstrate once and for all how the German was a great prophet in the way that Steiner himself also offers a similar message of hope for mankind. Troy Southgate’s new book explores this important period in Steiner’s life and demonstrates how the two men were both similar and dissimilar at the same time.