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Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche
abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a
moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner,
forced to leave academic life through ill health), he sets out his
views in a scintillating and bewildering series of aphorisms which
contain the seeds of his later philosophy (e.g. the will to power,
the need to transcend conventional Christian morality). The result
is one of the cornerstones of his life's work. It well deserves its
subtitle 'A Book for Free Spirits', and its original dedication to
Voltaire, whose project of radical enlightenment here finds a new
champion. Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is a scathing and powerful
critique of philosophy, religion and science. Here Nietzsche
presents us with problems and challenges that are as troubling as
they are inspiring, while at the same time outlining the virtues,
ideas, and practices which will characterise the philosophy of the
future. Relentless, energetic, tirelessly probing, he both
determines that philosophy's agenda and is himself the embodiment
of the type of thought he wants to foster.
'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our
earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured,
if one wishes to become a proficient hater' This volume contains a
selection of Nietzsche's brilliant and challenging aphorisms,
examining the pleasures of revenge, the falsity of pity, and the
incompatibility of marriage with the philosophical life.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th
birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and
diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and
across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over
Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del
Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are
stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays
satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives
of millions. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). Nietzsche's works
available in Penguin Classics are A Nietzsche Reader, Beyond Good
and Evil, Ecce Homo, Human, All Too Human, On the Genealogy of
Morals, The Birth of Tragedy, The Portable Nietzsche, Thus Spoke
Zarathustra, Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ.
A deluxe, high-quality edition of Friedrich Nietzsche's seminal
work Beyond Good and Evil is one of the final books by German
philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. This landmark work continues to be
one of the most well-known and influential explorations of moral
and ethical philosophy ever conceived. Expanding on the concepts
from his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche adopts a
polemic approach to past philosophers who, in his view, lacked
critical sense in accepting flawed premises in their consideration
of morality. The metaphysics of morality, Nietzsche argues, should
not assume that a good man is simply the opposite of an evil man,
rather merely different expression of humanity's common basic
impulses. Controversial in its time, as well as hotly debated in
the present, Nietzsche's work moves beyond conventional ethics to
suggest that a universal morality for all human beings in
non-existent - perception, reason and experience are not static,
but change according to an individual's perspective and
interpretation. The work further argues that philosophic traditions
such as "truth," "self-consciousness" and "free will" are merely
inventions of Western morality and that the "will to power" is the
real driving force of all human behaviour. This volume: Critiques
the belief that actions, including domination or injury to the
weak, can be universally objectionable Explores themes of religion
and "master and slave" morality Includes a collection of stunning
aphorisms and observations of the human condition Part of the
bestselling Capstone Classics Series edited by Tom Butler-Bowdon,
this collectible, hard-back edition of Beyond Good and Evil
provides an accessible and insightful Introduction by leading
Nietzsche authority Dr Christopher Janaway. This deluxe volume is
perfect for anyone with interest in philosophy, psychology,
science, history and literature.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra (Paperback, New edition)
Friedrich Nietzsche; Translated by Anthony Common; Introduction by Nicholas Nietzsche; Series edited by Tom Griffith
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Translated by Thomas Common. With an Introduction by Nicholas
Davey. This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of
the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of
Nietzsche's thought. 'God is dead', he tells us. Christianity is
decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with
this life, but with the next. Nietzsche emphasises the UEbermensch,
or Superman, whose will to power makes him the creator of a new
heroic mentality. The intensely felt ideas are expressed in
prose-poetry of indefinable beauty. Though misused by the German
National Socialist party as a spurious justification of their
creed, the book also had a profound influence on early
twentieth-century writers such as Shaw, Mann, Gide, Lawrence and
Sartre.
'Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether?'
Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from
Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche
wrote before his descent into madness. One of 46 new books in the
bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first
ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of
the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the
world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence,
heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
The year 1888 marked the last year of Friedrich Nietzsche's
intellectual career and the culmination of his philosophical
development. In that final productive year, he worked on six books,
all of which are now, for the first time, presented in English in a
single volume. Together these new translations provide a
fundamental and complete introduction to Nietzsche's mature thought
and to the virtuosity and versatility of his most fully developed
style. The writings included here have a bold, sometimes radical
tone that can be connected to Nietzsche's rising profile and
growing confidence. In The Antichrist, we are offered an extended
critique of Christianity and Christian morality alongside blunt
diagnoses of contemporary Europe's cultural decadence. In Dionysus
Dithyrambs we are presented with his only work composed exclusively
of poetry, and in Twilight of the Idols we find a succinct summary
of his mature philosophical views. At times the works are also
openly personal, as in The Case of Wagner, which presents
Nietzsche's attempt to settle accounts with his former close
friend, German composer Richard Wagner, and in his provocative
autobiography, Ecce Homo, which sees Nietzsche taking stock of his
past and future while also reflecting on many of his earlier texts.
Scrupulously edited, this critical volume also includes commentary
by esteemed Nietzsche scholar Andreas Urs Sommer. Through this new
collection, students and scholars are given an essential
introduction to Nietzsche's late thought.
After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in
"Thus Spake Zarathustra, " Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of
the superman with the 1886 publication of "Beyond Good and Evil."
Conventional morality is a sign of slavery, Nietzsche maintains,
and the superman goes beyond good and evil in action, thought, and
creation. Nietzsche especially targets what he calls a "slave
morality" that fosters herdlike quiescence and stigmatizes the
"highest human types."
In this pathbreaking work, Nietzsche's philosophical and literary
powers are at their height: with devastating irony and flashing wit
he gleefully dynamites centuries of accumulated conventional wisdom
in metaphysics, morals, and psychology, clearing a path for such
twentieth-century innovators as Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, Sigmund
Freud, George Bernard Shaw, Andre Malraux, and Jean-Paul Sartre,
all of whom openly acknowledged their debt to him.
Students of philosophy and literature as well as general readers
will prize this rich sampling of Nietzsche's thought in an
unabridged and inexpensive edition of one of the philosopher's most
important works.
This English translation--the first since 1909--restores "Human,
All Too Human" to its proper central position in the Nietzsche
canon. First published in 1878, the book marks the philosophical
coming of age of Friedrich Nietzsche. In it he rejects the
romanticism of his early work, influenced by Wagner and
Schopenhauer, and looks to enlightened reason and science. The
"Free Spirit" enters, untrammeled by all accepted conventions, a
precursor of Zarathustra. The result is 638 stunning aphorisms
about everything under and above the sun.
This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche's
unpublished notes from the spring of 1884 through the winter of
1884–85, the period in which he was composing the fourth and
final part of his favorite work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. These
notebooks therefore provide special insight into Nietzsche's
philosophical concept of superior humans,as well as important clues
to the identities of the famous nineteenth-century European figures
who inspired Nietzsche's invention of fictional characters such as
"the prophet," "the sorcerer," and "the ugliest human."In these
notebooks, Nietzsche also further explores ideas that were
introduced in the first three parts of Thus Spoke Zarathustra:
Zarathustra's teaching about the death of God; his proclamation
that it is time for humankind to overcome itself and create the
superhumans; his discovery that the secret of life is the will to
power; and his most profound thought—that the entire cosmos will
eternally return. Readers will encounter here a wealth of material
that Nietzsche would include in his next book, Beyond Good and
Evil, as he engages the ideas of Kant and Schopenhauer, challenges
cultural icons like Richard Wagner, and mercilessly exposes the
foibles of his contemporaries, especially of his fellow Germans.
Readers will also discover an extensive collection of Nietzsche's
poetry. Richly annotated and accompanied by a detailed translators'
afterword, this volume showcases the cosmopolitanism at work in
Nietzsche's multifaceted and critical exploration of aesthetic and
cultural influences that transcend national (and nationalist)
notions of literature, music, and culture.
Written on the threshold of Thus Spoke Zarathustra during a high
point of social, intellectual and psychic vibrancy, The Joyful
Science (frequently translated as The Gay Science) is one of
Nietzsche's thematically tighter books. Here he debuts and
practices the art of amor fati, love of fate, to explore what is
"species preserving" in relation to happiness (Book One);
inspiration and the role of art as they keep us mentally fit for
inhabiting a world dominated by science (Book Two); the challenges
of living authentically and overcoming after the death of God (Book
Three); and the crescendo of life affirmation in which Nietzsche
revealed the doctrine of eternal recurrence and previewed the
figure of Zarathustra (Book Four). Invigorated and motivated by
Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche in 1887
added a new preface, an appendix of poems, and Book Five, where he
deepened the critique of science and displayed a more genealogical
approach. This volume provides the first English translation of the
Idylls from Messina and, more importantly, it includes the first
English translation of the notebooks of 1881-1882, in which
Nietzsche first formulated the eternal recurrence. Structurally and
stylistically, The Joyful Science remains Nietzsche's most
effective book of aphorisms, immediately after which he took on the
voice and alter ego of Zarathustra in order to push beyond the
boundaries of even the most liberating prose.
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Beyond Good and Evil (Hardcover)
Friedrich Nietzsche; Introduction by Michael Tanner
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One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche
dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God.
Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in
false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and
subversive energy, Nietzsche demands that the individual impose
their own 'will to power' upon the world.
"Beyond Good and Evil" is Nietzsche's first sustained philosophical
treatment of issues important to him. Unlike the expository prose
of the essayistic period (1872-76), the stylized forays and jabs of
the aphoristic period (1878-82), and the lyrical-philosophical
rhetoric of the Zarathustra-period (1882-85), "Beyond Good and
Evil" inscribes itself boldly into the history of philosophy,
challenging ancient and modern notions of philosophy's achievements
and insisting on a new task for "new philosophers." This is a
watershed book for Nietzsche and for philosophy in the modern era.
"On the Genealogy of Morality" applies Nietzsche's celebrated
genealogical method, honed in the earlier aphoristic writings, to
the problem of morality's influence on the human species. In three
treatises that strikingly anticipate insights appearing much later
in Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents" (1930), Nietzsche
provides an anthropological psychograph of our species, revealing
the origins of the concepts of good and evil, the roles played by
guilt and bad conscience, and the persistence of ascetic ideals.
Manifesting a hopeful yet unsentimental assessment of the human
condition, these books resonated throughout the 20th century and
continue to exert broad appeal.
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The Joyous Science (Paperback)
Friedrich Nietzsche; Translated by R. Kevin Hill; Edited by R. Kevin Hill
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The Joyous Science is a liberating voyage of discovery as
Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of
morality, the arts and modernity give way to an exhilarating
doctrine of self-emancipation and the concept of eternal
recurrence. Here is Nietzsche at his most personal and affirmative;
in his words, this is a book of 'exuberance, restlessness,
contrariety and April showers'. With its unique voice and style,
its playful combination of poetry and prose, and its invigorating
quest for self-emancipation, The Joyous Science is a literary tour
de force and quite possibly Nietzsche's best book.
"We continue to live within the intellectual shadow cast by
Nietzsche."-New York Times Book Review Reissued for the age of
"fake news," On Truth and Untruth charts Nietzsche's evolving
thinking on truth, which has exerted a powerful influence over
modern and contemporary thought. This original collection features
the complete text of the celebrated early essay "On Truth and Lies
in a Nonmoral Sense" ("a keystone in Nietzsche's thought"-Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy), as well as selections from the great
philosopher's entire career, including key passages from The Gay
Science, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Will
to Power, Twilight of the Idols, and The Antichrist. In times of
crisis, the great works of philosophy help us make sense of the
world. The Harper Perennial Resistance Library is a special
five-book series highlighting short classic works of independent
thought that illuminate the nature of truth, humanity's dangerous
attraction to authoritarianism, the influence of media and mass
communication, and the philosophy of resistance-all critical in
understanding today's politically charged world.
'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the
bridge behind us - what is more, we have burned the land behind
us!' Nietzsche's devastating demolition of religion would have
seismic consequences for future generations. With God dead, he
envisages a brilliant future for humanity: one in which individuals
would at last be responsible for their destinies. One of twenty new
books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new
selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped
shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to
prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.
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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The Anti-Christ (Paperback)
Friedrich Nietzsche; Introduction by H.L. Mencken; Translated by H.L. Mencken
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This is Nietzsche's last book and a fitting capstone to his career.
It's succinct, biting, and encapsulates the criticisms of
Christianity found in his other works. This edition contains an
8,000-word introduction by its translator, the famous iconoclastic
writer H. L. Mencken.
This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche's
unpublished notes from late 1879 to early 1881, the period in which
he authored Dawn, the second book in the trilogy that began with
Human, All Too Human and concluded with The Joyful Science. In
these fragments, we see Nietzsche developing the conceptual triad
of morals, customs, and ethics, which undergirds his critique of
morality as the reification into law or dogma of conceptions of
good and evil. Here, Nietzsche assesses Christianity's role in the
determination of moral values as the highest values and of
redemption as the representation of humanity's highest aspirations.
These notes show the resulting tension between Nietzsche's
contrasting thoughts on modernity, which he critiques as an
unrecognized aftereffect of the Christian worldview, but also views
as the springboard to "the dawn" of a transformed humanity and
culture. The fragments further allow readers insight into
Nietzsche's continuous internal debate with exemplary figures in
his own life and culture—Napoleon, Schopenhauer, and Wagner—who
represented challenges to hitherto existing morals and
culture—challenges that remained exemplary for Nietzsche
precisely in their failure. Presented in Nietzsche's aphoristic
style, Dawn is a book that must be read between the lines, and
these fragments are an essential aid to students and scholars
seeking to probe this work and its partners.
Translated by Antony M. Ludovici. With an Introduction by Ray
Furness. The three works in this collection, all dating from
Nietzsche's last lucid months, show him at his most stimulating and
controversial: the portentous utterances of the prophet (together
with the ill-defined figure of the UEbermensch) are forsaken, as
wit, exuberance and dazzling insights predominate, forcing the
reader to face unpalatable insights and to rethink every commonly
accepted 'truth'. Thinking with Nietzsche, in Jaspers' words, means
holding one's own against him, and we are indeed refreshed and
challenged by the vortex of his thoughts, by concepts which test
and probe. In The Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, and Ecce
Homo Nietzsche writes at breakneck speed of his provenance, his
adversaries and his hopes for mankind; the books are largely
epigrammatic and aphoristic, allowing this poet-philosopher to
bewilder and fascinate us with their strangeness and their daring.
He who fights with monsters, Nietzsche once told us, should look to
it that he himself does not become one, and when you gaze long into
an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Reader, beware.
Volume 4 of "The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche" contains
two works, "Mixed Opinions and Maxims" (1879) and "The Wanderer and
His Shadow" (1880), originally published separately, then
republished together in the 1886 edition of Nietzsche's works. They
mingle aphorisms drawn from notebooks of 1875-79, years when
worsening health forced Nietzsche toward an increasingly solitary
existence. Like its predecessor, "Human, All Too Human II" is above
all an act of resistance not only to the intellectual influences
that Nietzsche felt called upon to critique, but to the basic
physical facts of his daily life. It turns an increasingly sharply
formulated genealogical method of analysis toward Nietzsche's
persistent concerns--metaphysics, morality, religion, art, style,
society, politics and culture. The notebook entries included here
offer a window into the intellectual sources behind Nietzsche's
evolution as a philosopher, the reading and self-reflection that
nourished his lines of thought. The linking of notebook entries to
specific published aphorisms, included in the notes, allows readers
of Nietzsche in English to trace for the first time the intensive
process of revision through which he transformed raw notebook
material into the finely crafted sequences of aphoristic reflection
that signal his distinctiveness as a philosophical stylist.
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