The Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

The Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

In The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche expounds on the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its time. He declares it to be the expression of a culture which has achieved a delicate but powerful balance between Dionysian insight into the chaos and suffering which underlies

The Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

Two representative and important works in one volume by one of the greatest German philosophers. The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche's first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche in the brilliant 'Attempt at a Self-Criticism' which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the

The Will to Power (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

Throughout his career, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche explored the concept of the will to power, interpreting it variously as a psychological, biological, and metaphysical principle. This posthumously produced volume, drawn from his unpublished notebooks, collects the nineteenth-century philosopher's

The Portable Nietzsche (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

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. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world's leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, 'Few writers in any age were so full of ideas,'

A Nietzsche Reader (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the death of God in The Gay Science (1882) and went on to challenge the Christian code of morality

The Essential Nietzsche (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

A prominent intellectual of the Weimar era, Heinrich Mann was a leading authority on Nietzsche. This volume consists of Mann's selections of highlights from the philosopher's works, along with an introduction that explains their significance to modern readers.Key excerpts from Nietzsche's books

Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

This is a major work by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, whose writings have been deeply influential on subsequent generations of philosophers. It is offered here in a new translation by Judith Norman, with an introduction by Rolf Peter Horstmann that places the work in its historical and

Nietzsche on Love (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

Friedrich Nietzsche presented many of his greatest insights in pithy, well-turned short phrases that do not follow any philosophical dogma. Instead, his chastening but ultimately life-affirming philosophy puts forth true love and friendship as our best hope in dark times. Here are Nietzsche's key

Humano, Demasiado Humano (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

The Will to Power (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

New to Penguin Classics, The Will to Power contains some of Nietzsche's most fascinating and combative writings on nihilism, metaphysics and the future of Europe. Assembled by Nietzsche's sister after his death, The Will to Power is a collection of the philosopher's reflections and theories taken

The Gay Science (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

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

On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

For the first time in Penguin Classics: Nietzsche's accessible exploration of key ideas in his landmark Beyond Good and Evil--in a lucid new translation Friedrich Nietzsche claimed that the purpose of On the Genealogy of Morals was to call attention to his previous writings. But in fact the book

Twilight of the Idols: Or How to Philosophize with a Hammer (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a short introduction to the whole of his philosophy, and the most synoptic of all his books, bristles with a register of vocabulary derived from physiology, pathology, symptomatalogy and medicine. This

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

Nietzsche's mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism; the questionable virtues of science and scholarship; liberal democracy, nationalism, and women's emancipation. A

Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics. Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition

Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

This volume presents Nietzsche's remarkable collection of almost 1400 aphorisms in R. J. Hollingdale's distinguished translation, together with a new historical introduction by Richard Schacht. Subtitled 'A Book for Free Spirits,' Human, All Too Human marked for Nietzsche a new 'positivism' and

On the Genealogy of Morals (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about interpretation and the history of ethics which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both. This is the most sustained of Nietzsche's later works and offers one of the fullest expressions of his characteristic concerns. The

The Anti-Christ (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

The Anti-Christ is a work originally published in 1895 and written by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. This is a book which is seen as an assault by Nietzsche on the institution of Christianity and focuses on the 'slave morality' and the apathy of Western Christianity. Believeing that Christianity

The Will to Power (Volumes I and II) (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

First released in 1901, about one year after Nietzsche's death, 'The Will to Power' is a collection of Nietzsche's unedited and unpublished writings. Though the title and all of the ideas are of the radical philosopher's own invention, the order and selection of Nietzsche's notebooks are due to the

Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

The four early essays in Untimely Meditations are key documents for understanding the development of Nietzsche's thought and clearly anticipate many of his later writings. They deal with such broad topics as the relationship between popular and genuine culture, strategies for cultural reform, the

Nietzsche: The Gay Science (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

Nietzsche wrote The Gay Science, which he later described as 'perhaps my most personal book', when he was at the height of his intellectual powers, and the reader will find it an extensive and sophisticated treatment of the philosophical themes and views most central to Nietzsche's own thought and

Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche (Nietzsche Friedrich)(Paperback / softback)

The Joyous Science (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

Grounded in his famous notion that God is dead, Nietzsche's most personal book--and one of his best A Penguin Classic The Joyous Science--also known as The Gay Science and The Joyful Wisdom--is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that God is dead and his critique of