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Friedrich Nietzsche

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died 11 years later. Known for saying that “god is dead,” Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended.
God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.
The Joyous Science
The Will to Power
On the Genealogy of Morals
Why I Am So Wise
Beyond Good and Evil
Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Birth of Tragedy
Ecce Homo
The Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ
Beyond Good & Evil
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
A Nietzsche Reader
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Portable Nietzsche
The Gay Science
The Will to Power
The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Birth of Tragedy & The Genealogy of Morals

Books

God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.
The Joyous Science
The Will to Power
On the Genealogy of Morals
Why I Am So Wise
Beyond Good and Evil
Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Birth of Tragedy
Ecce Homo
The Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ
Beyond Good & Evil
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
A Nietzsche Reader
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Portable Nietzsche
The Gay Science
The Will to Power
The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Birth of Tragedy & The Genealogy of Morals

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