Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Modern Library Classics)
by Friedrich Nietzsche
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780679783398 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner; and Ecce Homo. Edited and translated by the great Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, this volume provides a definitive guide to the full range of Nietzsche's thought.
Included also are seventy-five aphorisms, selections from Nietzsche's correspondence, and variants from drafts for Ecce Homo.
Included also are seventy-five aphorisms, selections from Nietzsche's correspondence, and variants from drafts for Ecce Homo.
Review:
"Nietzsche is one of the few philosophers since Plato whom large numbers of intelligent people read for pleasure."
--Walter Kaufmann
--Walter Kaufmann
Synopsis:
The Birth of Tragedy. Beyond Good and Evil. On the Genology of Morals. The Case of Wagner. Ecce Homo. Five key works - unabridged - by the most influential philosopher for the 20th-century. Translated, with notes and a critical essay by Walter Kaufmann, plus a new introduction from Peter Gay. Contents Entirely different from the only competing anthology (the Viking Portable).<P>The year 2,000 marks the 100th anniversary of Nietzsche's death.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780679783398
- Translator:
- Kaufmann, Walter
- Introduction:
- Gay, Peter
- Translator:
- Kaufmann, Walter
- Introduction:
- Gay, Peter
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Modern Library
- Location:
- New York :
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Subject:
- Modern
- Subject:
- Western
- Subject:
- Philosophy, modern
- Subject:
- History & Surveys - Modern
- Subject:
- Western x
- Subject:
- History & Surveys - General
- Edition Number:
- Modern Library ed.
- Edition Description:
- Paperback
- Series:
- Modern Library Classics
- Series Volume:
- 1956
- Publication Date:
- November 2000
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 896
- Dimensions:
- 8.04x5.16x1.27 in. 1.34 lbs.










