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    The Portable Nietzsche

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    Author Friedrich Nietzsche
    Introduction by Walter Kaufmann
    Translated by Walter Kaufmann
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    On sale Jan 27, 1977 | 704 Pages | 9780140150629
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    A captivating collection of Friedrich Nietzsche’s seminal works, from his provocative musings on truth and morality to his profound exploration of human existence

    “In this volume, one may very conveniently have a rich review of one of the most sensitive, passionate, and misunderstood writers in Western, or any, literature.”—Newsweek

    “Few writers in any age were so full of ideas.”—Walter Kaufmann, from the Introduction

    The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago, yet few writers have been so consistently misinterpreted. The Portable Nietzsche includes Walter Kaufmann’s definitive translations of the complete and unabridged texts of Nietzsche’s four major works: Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In addition, Kaufmann brings together selections from his other books, notes, and letters, to give a full picture of Nietzsche’s development, versatility, and inexhaustibility.

    Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
    Introduction
    Chronology
    Bibliography
    Letter to His Sister
    Fragment of a Critique of Schopenhauer
    On Ethics
    Note (1870-71)
    From Homer's Contest
    Notes (1873)
    From On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense
    Notes about Wagner
    Notes (1874)
    Notes (1875)
    From Human, All-Too-Human
    From Mixed Opinions and Maxims
    From The Wanderer and His Shadow
    Letter to Overbeck
    Notes (1880-81)
    From The Dawn
    Postcard to Overbeck
    From The Gay Science
    Draft of a Letter to Paul Rée

    Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    Editor's Preface
    Contents
    First Part
    Second Part
    Third Part
    Fourth and Last Part

    Note (1884)
    Letters: To Overbeck; To His Sister; To Overbeck
    Notes
    From a Draft for a Preface
    From Beyond Good and Evil
    From The Gay Science: Book V
    From Towards a Geneaology of Morals
    Letter to Overbeck
    Notes (1887)
    Letter to His Sister
    Notes (1888)
    From The Wagner Case

    Twilight of the Idols
    Editor's Preface
    Contents

    The Antichrist
    Editor's Preface

    From Ecce Homo

    Nietzsche Contra Wagner
    Contents

    Letters (1889): To Gast; To Jacob Burckhardt; To Overbeck
    Editions of 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. View titles by Friedrich Nietzsche

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    A captivating collection of Friedrich Nietzsche’s seminal works, from his provocative musings on truth and morality to his profound exploration of human existence

    “In this volume, one may very conveniently have a rich review of one of the most sensitive, passionate, and misunderstood writers in Western, or any, literature.”—Newsweek

    “Few writers in any age were so full of ideas.”—Walter Kaufmann, from the Introduction

    The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago, yet few writers have been so consistently misinterpreted. The Portable Nietzsche includes Walter Kaufmann’s definitive translations of the complete and unabridged texts of Nietzsche’s four major works: Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In addition, Kaufmann brings together selections from his other books, notes, and letters, to give a full picture of Nietzsche’s development, versatility, and inexhaustibility.

    Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Chronology
    Bibliography
    Letter to His Sister
    Fragment of a Critique of Schopenhauer
    On Ethics
    Note (1870-71)
    From Homer's Contest
    Notes (1873)
    From On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense
    Notes about Wagner
    Notes (1874)
    Notes (1875)
    From Human, All-Too-Human
    From Mixed Opinions and Maxims
    From The Wanderer and His Shadow
    Letter to Overbeck
    Notes (1880-81)
    From The Dawn
    Postcard to Overbeck
    From The Gay Science
    Draft of a Letter to Paul Rée

    Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    Editor's Preface
    Contents
    First Part
    Second Part
    Third Part
    Fourth and Last Part

    Note (1884)
    Letters: To Overbeck; To His Sister; To Overbeck
    Notes
    From a Draft for a Preface
    From Beyond Good and Evil
    From The Gay Science: Book V
    From Towards a Geneaology of Morals
    Letter to Overbeck
    Notes (1887)
    Letter to His Sister
    Notes (1888)
    From The Wagner Case

    Twilight of the Idols
    Editor's Preface
    Contents

    The Antichrist
    Editor's Preface

    From Ecce Homo

    Nietzsche Contra Wagner
    Contents

    Letters (1889): To Gast; To Jacob Burckhardt; To Overbeck
    Editions of Nietzsche

    Author

    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. View titles by Friedrich Nietzsche

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