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Basic Writings of Nietzsche

by Friedrich Nietzsche
Basic Writings of Nietzsche

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Peter Gay is Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University and the former director of the Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library. His works include The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom and Modernism: The Lure of Heresy.

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"Nietzsche is one of the few philosophers since Plato whom large numbers of intelligent people read for pleasure."

--Walter Kaufmann


1. Nietzsche remains one of the most influential philosophers of our time. As Walter Kaufmann notes, "No other philosopher since Plato and Aristotle, with the exception of Kant and Hegel, has influenced so many widely different thinkers and writers so profoundly." What are some of the main aspects of Nietzsche's influence, and what are some of the factors that account for his tremendous and enduring influence?

2. One of Nietzsche's major themes is the idea of "the eternal recurrence." What do you think Nietzsche was attempting to do with this idea? What does he seem to mean by it? What are its implications?

3. As Peter Gay notes, Nietzsche has been one of the most persistently misunderstood writers in the history of Western thought. What are some of the misunderstandings that have attended his work? Are some thinkers more easily misappropriated than others?

4. Nietzsche's style is particularly iconoclastic and unique; as Walter Kaufmann notes, "Nietzsche clearly wanted to be read with a delighted awareness of nuances of style and thought." Discuss how Nietzsche's style-which often condenses complex ideas into seemingly simple phrases-works to inform your reading or understanding of his thought. Is Nietzsche's style inseparable from his meaning?

5. One of Nietzsche's favorite devices is the aphorism. Why is this form significant for Nietzsche? What does he accomplish by writing in this way? Can all of his writing be said to be in some way aphoristic?

6. For Nietzsche, the most important philosophy is always "untimely," and Nietzsche had a particularly complicated and contentious relationship toward many of his contemporaries, for instance Wagner. Discuss Nietzsche's various attitudes toward his contemporaries as stated in Basic Writings, and conversely the ideas, figures, and ways of thinking that Nietzsche seems to find most sympathetic to his own philosophy.

7. Nietzsche has been considered a nihilist, and also a philosopher who more than anything sought to transcend nihilism. Discuss the idea of nihilism in broad terms, and Nietzsche's use or development of this idea.

8. What, for Nietzsche, is the "will to power"?

9. Throughout Nietzsche's work is a call for a new philosophy, for radical breaks with various conventional ideas and methodologies, and for new philosophers. What are some of Nietzsche's hopes for the future of philosophy?


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ISBN:
9780679783398
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
11/28/2000
Publisher:
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
Series info:
Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
Pages:
896
Height:
1.27IN
Width:
5.16IN
Thickness:
1.25
Series:
Modern Library Classics
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2000
Series Volume:
1956
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
Author:
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Author:
Peter Gay
Author:
Peter Gay
Author:
Walter Kaufmann
Translator:
Walter Kaufmann
Oth:
Walter A. Kaufmann
Author:
Walter Arnold Kaufmann
Author:
Walter Arnold Kaufmann
Author:
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
Oth:
Peter Gay
Oth:
Walter Kaufmann
Subject:
General Philosophy
Subject:
Philosophy, modern
Subject:
Philosophy

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