Nietzsche's Best 8 Books

by Friedrich Nietzsche, Bill Chapko

Although the works in this Nietzsche collection are based on early 1900's public domain translations, the texts have been modernized. Words such as "fain, hitherto, thee, wouldst, therefrom, nigh, ye and forsooth", have been replaced with present-day English equivalents.Unique Features of this Special Kindle Original Essay on Nietzsche's Fundamental Idea of Eternal RecurrenceA New Introduction to Nietzsche's Life and Writings by the EditorAn New Extensive Timeline Biography A Section with Nietzsche's Comments on Each of his Books.Selected Excerpts from His Other "An Ebook to Search the Spirit of Friedrich Nietzsche" "Nietzsche's Best 8 Books" contains the complete and unabridged texts Gay Science2.Ecce Homo3.Thus Spoke Zarathustra4.The Dawn5.Twilight of the Idols6.The Antichrist7.Beyond Good and Evil8.On the Genealogy of MoralsUnique among philosophers Nietzsche wrote mostly aphorisms. Within a book aphorisms hop around from subject to subject. A particular subject can reappear in many of his books. With this ebook the reader can search 8 books at once to explore a theme or subject.From the Introduction by the "University philosophers, especially from America and England, have always been bewildered and irritated by Nietzsche. He doesn't fit anywhere. His influence has been outside university culture - among artists, dancers, poets, writers, novelists, psychologists, playwrights. Some of the most famous who publicly acknowledged being strongly influenced by Nietzsche were Picasso, Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, William Butler Yeats, Rainer Rilke, Allen Ginsberg, Khalil Gibran, Martin Buber, H.L. Mencken, Emma Goldman, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Jack London, Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Karl Jaspers, Alfred Adler, Fritz Perls, Eugene O'Neill and George Bernard Shaw. . . . Explore Nietzsche yourself. He mostly wrote directly and clearly, without scholarly jargon. See if he brings out the artist or psychologist or dancer in you."

Genres: Philosophy

2511 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 1, 2010

About the author

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24, but resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and probably vascular dementia. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche died in 1900, after experiencing pneumonia and multiple strokes.
Nietzsche's work spans philosophical polemics, poetry, cultural criticism, and fiction while displaying a fondness for aphorism and irony. Prominent elements of his philosophy include his radical critique of truth in favour of perspectivism; a genealogical critique of religion and Christian morality and a related theory of master–slave morality; the aesthetic affirmation of life in response to both the "death of God" and the profound crisis of nihilism; the notion of Apollonian and Dionysian forces; and a characterisation of the human subject as the expression of competing wills, collectively understood as the will to power. He also developed influential concepts such as the Übermensch and his doctrine of eternal return. In his later work, he became increasingly preoccupied with the creative powers of the individual to overcome cultural and moral mores in pursuit of new values and aesthetic health. His body of work touched a wide range of topics, including art, philology, history, music, religion, tragedy, culture, and science, and drew inspiration from Greek tragedy as well as figures such as Zoroaster, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Wagner, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
After his death, Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth became the curator and editor of his manuscripts. She edited his unpublished writings to fit her German ultranationalist ideology, often contradicting or obfuscating Nietzsche's stated opinions, which were explicitly opposed to antisemitism and nationalism. Through her published editions, Nietzsche's work became associated with fascism and Nazism. 20th-century scholars such as Walter Kaufmann, R.J. Hollingdale, and Georges Bataille defended Nietzsche against this interpretation, and corrected editions of his writings were soon made available. Nietzsche's thought enjoyed renewed popularity in the 1960s and his ideas have since had a profound impact on 20th- and early 21st-century thinkers across philosophy—especially in schools of continental philosophy such as existentialism, postmodernism, and post-structuralism—as well as art, literature, music, poetry, politics, and popular culture.

Reviews

[Sean Donnelly]

Giving this Nietzsche 'tomb' (somewhat sloppy collection of his 'best' ? 8 books.
I've been reading/ wrestling/ ('struggling' with? LOL).
My God. Please forgive the fairly obnoxious and pedantic pseudo intellectual sounding bullsh*t.
I hate when people do that.
Ok, sorry. Just had to insert some obligatory self deprecating, far too much coffee consumption nonsense.
His work is far too influential yet infamous due to centuries of misunderstandings and misinformation.
More later.
Thus spoke syphilis.
Sorry for the cliche meme style dig at herr Nietzsche.
More relevant summaries later. That's all folks. :-)