{"product_id":"2026200010025-secondhand-salome-her-life-and-work","title":"Salomé: Her Life And Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn\/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLou Andreas-Salomé — the woman who captivated Nietzsche, inspired Rilke, and sat across from Freud as a peer — was one of the most extraordinary minds of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Angela Livingstone's biography restores her to the prominence she deserves. Born in St. Petersburg in 1861, Salomé forged a life of fierce intellectual independence, moving through the great philosophical and literary circles of Europe while producing her own novels, essays, and psychoanalytic writings with remarkable originality. Livingstone chronicles her subject's relationships not as scandalous gossip but as intellectual partnerships — passionate exchanges that shaped the very contours of modern European thought.\n\nWhat emerges is a portrait of a woman who refused every conventional role available to her, insisting instead on a life of the mind lived entirely on her own terms. Livingstone's prose is measured and scholarly yet deeply engaged, arguing persuasively that Salomé's own written work — long overshadowed by the famous men around her — merits serious critical attention in its own right. The result is a biography that illuminates a singular life and leaves the reader wondering how history could have so thoroughly misplaced one of its most luminous figures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130628153563,"sku":"2026200010025-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/2308c6c9-ff5b-433e-9e6d-a57b223e4b08.png?v=1786587931","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200010025-secondhand-salome-her-life-and-work","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}