Nietzsche, Friedrich / Ludovici, Anthony M[ario]. The Case of Wagner / Nietzsche contra Wagner. A Musician’s Problem. A Letter from Turin, May 1888. / The Brief of a Psychologist. / Translated by Anthony M. Ludovici. [Assumed First UK Edition]. Edinburgh and London, T.N. Foulis, 1910. 18.5 x 13.5 cm. ix, 82 pages plus five pages publishers list. Original illustrated paper wrappers. Soft covers. Fore edge deckle. See images. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped.Front cover detached. Small paper losses to top of spine. Edges dust dulled. Occassional mild foxing. Some annotations in pencil by previous owner, possibly the Translator.

Anthony Mario Ludovici MBE (1882 – 1971) was a British philosopher, sociologist, social critic and polyglot. He is known as a proponent of aristocracy and an anti-egalitarianism, and in the early 20th century was a leading British conservative author. He wrote on subjects including art, metaphysics, politics, economics, religion, the differences between the sexes and races, health, and eugenics.
Ludovici began his career as an artist, painting and illustrating books. He later wrote over 30 books and translating many others. He spent several years in Germany where he studied Nietzsche’s writings in the original German. He was fluent in several languages. During the year 1906, Ludovici was private secretary to the sculptor Auguste Rodin, and as such had a close association with him. He later wrote of his personal experiences of Rodin’s personality and art, as well as his own opinions, in articles first appearing in the Cornhill Magazine from 1923, and in 1926 published in a book Personal Reminiscences of Auguste Rodin. He began lecturing on art, politics, religion, and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, about whom he wrote Who is to be Master of the World?: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1909) and Nietzsche: His Life and Works (1910). Nietzsche scholar William Mackintire Salter called Nietzsche: His Life and Works “the well-nigh perfect short manual” on Nietzsche. During World War I he joined the New Army as a translator, and then served as an artillery officer at Armentières and the Somme, where he described himself as “a miserable and vermin-ridden trench-rat”, and then in the Intelligence Staff at the War Office, where after two years of service he rose to head of his department (MI6 A). He was awarded the Order of the British Empire, which he immediately returned because he felt that it was too easily attainable and held by too many people. He attained the rank of Captain during World War I
After the war, he became a student of Dr. Oscar Levy, editor of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, the first translation of Nietzsche’s works in English. Ludovici contributed several volumes.

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