ABSTRACT
Hanover is an important yet attractive small city, located at crossing-point of important transport connections. Today it is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony, but in Ludwig Klages's day it was the capital of Prussian province of Hanover, after it had been annexed by Prussia in 1866 during the Austro-Prussian War. This chapter takes Klages deep into some of the most difficult and problematic aspects of Nietzsche's thought. Klages's career as a popular speaker, as a researcher, and as a thinker who was increasingly moving away from graphology to broader metaphysical questions was interrupted, as was so much else, by the outbreak in August 1914 of the First World War. Klages highlights the theme in Nietzsche of the relationship between consciousness and life. Hans Kern shared with Klages an interest in developing a psychological interpretation of the influential German philosophical figure of Friedrich Nietzsche.
