This volume in The Complete Works presents the first English
translations of Nietzsche's unpublished notebooks from Winter
1874/1875 through 1878, the period in which he developed the mixed
aphoristic-essayistic mode that continued across the rest of his
career. These notebooks comprise a range of different materials,
including early drafts and near-final versions of aphorisms that
would appear in both volumes of Human, All Too Human. Additionally,
there are extensive notes for a never-completed Unfashionable
Observation that was to be titled "We Philologists," early drafts
for the final sections of "Richard Wagner in Bayreuth," plans for
other possible publications, and detailed reading notes on
philologists, philosophers, and historians of his era, including
Friedrich August Wolf, Eugen Duhring, and Jacob Burckhardt. Through
this volume, readers gain insight into Nietzsche's emerging sense
of himself as a composer of complexly orchestrated, stylistically
innovative philosophical meditations-influenced by, but moving well
beyond, the modes used by aphoristic precursors such as Goethe, La
Rochefoucauld, Vauvenargues, and Schopenhauer. Further, these
notebooks allow readers to trace more closely Nietzsche's
development of ideas that remain central to his mature philosophy,
such as the contrast between free and constrained spirits, the
interplay of national, supra-national, and personal identities, and
the cultural centrality of the process of Bildung as formation,
education, and cultivation. With this latest book in the series,
Stanford continues its English-language publication of the famed
Colli-Montinari edition of Nietzsche's complete works, which
include the philosopher's notebooks and early unpublished writings.
Scrupulously edited so as to establish a new standard for the
field, each volume includes an Afterword that presents and
contextualizes the material it contains.
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