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The Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Modern Library
This title presents five central works by the most important and readable philosopher of modern times. It is translated by Walter Kaufmann, with a fresh introduction by Peter Gay.
The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Yes, what is Dionysian? - This book provides an answer - "a man who knows" speaks in it, the initiate and disciple of his god.' The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a book about the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its time. For Nietzsche, Greek tragedy is the expression of ...Show more
The Birth of Tragedy by Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
In 1869, at the age of twenty-four, Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed a professor of classical philology at the University of Basel, a remarkable position for one of his age. The Birth of Tragedy, published in 1872, was his first significant publication. It did little, however, to help his reputation as ...Show more
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The first book by the author of the classic philosophical text Beyond Good and Evil. The youthful faults of this work were exposed by the author himself in the brilliant Attempt at a Self-Criticism, which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most ...Show more
The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche; Thomas Common (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Philosophical Classics Ser.
One of Friedrich Nietzsche's classic works, The Gay Science (also known as The Joyful Wisdom), is the first of Nietzsche's writings to proclaim "God is dead" and to introduce Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of the eternal recurrence. Writing in Nietzsche's aphoristic style, the book also includes a number ...Show more
The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
Category: Philosophy | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Although dour in appearance and formidable in reputation, Friedrich Nietzsche was an ardent practitioner of the art of poetry--known in twelfth-century Proven al as "the gay science." This extensive collection of prose and verse offers a sophisticated treatment of the philosophical themes and views cent ...Show more
The Gay Science with a prelude in rhymes and an appendix of songs by Friedrich Nietzsche
Category: Science
"First published in 1882 and revised in 1887, "The Gay Science" was written at the peak of Nietzsche's intellectual abilities. It includes a large number of poems and an appendix of songs, all written with the intent of encouraging freedom of the mind. With praise for the benefits of science, intellectu ...Show more
The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
Category: Non-Fiction
The will to power is a prominent concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. The will to power describes what Nietzsche may have believed to be the main driving force in humans - achievement, ambition, and the striving to reach the highest possible position in life. These are all manifestations of ...Show more
The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Throughout his career, 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche explored the concept of the will to power, interpreting it variously as a psychological, biological, and metaphysical principle. This posthumously published volume collects his notes on the force that drives humans toward achiev ...Show more
Thus Spake Zarathustra by FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Category: Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
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 emphas ...Show more
Thus Spake Zarathustra by FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
This 19th-century literary and philosophical masterpiece introduces the controversial doctrine of the à bermensch, or "superman," a term later perverted by Nazi propagandists. A provocative work, designed to inspire readers. A tremendously influential philosophical work of the late nineteenth century, T ...Show more
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Category: Philosophy | Series: Capstone Classics
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a treatise by Friedrich Nietzsche, written in four parts and published in German between 1883 and 1885. The work is among the first of Nietzsche's mature philosophy and is considered the masterpiece of his career. It received little attention during his lifetime, but its influe ...Show more