Hiking with Nietzsche

Hiking with Nietzsche is a tale of two philosophical journeys - one made by John Kaag as an introspective teenager, the other seventeen years later in radically different circumstances as a husband and father - both following the paths Nietzsche took up the Swiss Alps.

Entertaining and intimate, Hiking with Nietzsche explores not only Nietzsche's ideals but how his philosophy relates to us in the 21st century. As Kaag hikes, alone or with his family, but always with Nietzsche, he finds that even slipping can be instructive. It is in the process of climbing and the inevitable missteps that one has the chance, in Nietzsche's words, to 'become who you are'.