Friedrich Nietzsche (Obras selectas series)

by Friedrich Nietzsche

The classic works of literature contained in each of these volumes represent each author's best and most famous writings. A wonderful introduction to world literature, this finely crafted and affordable series offers the works of these world-renowned authors to a wider audience.
Includes The Antichrist , Beyond Good and Evil , and Twilight of the Idols .

Genres: Philosophy

640 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1883

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

[Úrsula Bischofberger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Al margen de su implicación en el pensamiento filosófico occidental, que ha sido enorme, quiero expresar mis vivencias al leerlo:
- No es un libro para leer sentado. Hay que cogerlo e irse a andar. Leer, releer, volver atrás.
- Lo leía como una especie de biblia llena de imperativos y sugerencias, que me cuestionaba.
- No era un discurso que supusiera en mí una retentiva. Mas bien era un modo de espolearme, de cuestionarme, para que dejara de pensar todo lo que me habían hecho pensar y fuera capaz de despertar.
- Desde luego, la frase que más recuerdo no es la de que "Dios ha muerto", sino la que viene después: "¿no oléis el divino cadáver?". Esto me impresionaba mucho, allá por mis veintitantos.

Lo estuve leyendo y releyendo varios años.

[Alexander Tipan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book changed my life.


Muy muy bueno, abrio mi mente a nuevos paradigmas.

[Yesy Molina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Preludio de una locura inevitable, producto, a mi parecer, de una profunda soledad abrazada por un inmenso egocentrismo.

[Elion · Rating 5 out of 5]

❤️❤️❤️ Cambió mi psique para siempre. Lo mejor sería leerlo sin prejuicios, cuando me encontré con este libro no iba con alguna opinión sobre este. Pienso que eso me hizo disfrutarlo y amarlo aún más.

Grandes enseñanzas de mi vida se las debo a la filosofía de Nietzsche.

[Milé Sánchez · Rating 5 out of 5]

De mis libros favoritos de filosofía

[Andrea · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nunca me había aburrido tanto leyendo un libro. La filosofía no es para todo el mundo y este libro me lo ha dejado claro.

[Checo Mejia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not the kind of book for me.

[Jimena Lamas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pero el placer no quiere ni herederos, ni hijos: se quiere a sí mismo, quiere eternidad, quiere retorno, quiere todo lo que es idéntico a sí mismo eternamente.

[Xime Allessa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Definitivamente fue una lectura interesante.
Me gusta mucho el inicio, donde no sabía quién o qué era lo que narraba.
Disfruté de todas las lecciones que daba.
Me quedó con muchas frases y enseñanzas.
Nietzsche me intimidaba bastante, pero sí todas sus obras son en algo parecidas a esta, tengo ahora más curiosidad de seguirlo leyendo que nunca.
Maravilloso.

“Los buenos, en efecto, no pueden crear, son siempre el comienzo del final. Crucifican a quien escribe nuevos valores sobre nuevas tablas. Sacrifican el futuro a sí mismos, crucifican a todo el futuro de los hombres. Los buenos,han sido siempre, el comienzo del final.” ~Zaratustra
“Nunca cayó tan bajo el mundo, Roma bajó a ser puta y burdel, el César de aroma bajó a ser un animal, Dios mismo se hizo judío.” ~Zaratustra
Daaaaamn

[Manuel Peñaranda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Una obra filosófica que no debe faltar.

[Macoco G.M. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Leer a Nietzsche es algo inconmensurable.
Sinceramente a mi me cambió la percepción de las cosas.
Es brutal, radical, maravilloso, dulce e iracundo, depravado y amante del ser humano. Simplemente genial!

[Diego Garza · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bueno para el vocabulario.

[Devastatingwildness]

- El ocaso de los ídolos ✔ [16/09/2016]

Parece un buen libro para empezar con Nietzsche.
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[Dk Towers · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nada más leí "Así hablo Zaratustra".