The Complete Works of Nietzsche: including Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Human All Too Human, The Birth of Tragedy, and many more

by Friedrich Nietzsche, Original Thinkers Institute

This is a complete collection of all the novels written by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Anti-Christ, The Gay Science, The Birth of Tragedy, Ecce Homo, Human All Too Human, Twilight of the Idols, The Will to Power, The Case of Wagner, Untimely Meditations, The Dawn of Day, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, and Nietzsche Contra Wagner.

Regarded as one of the most profound German philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche is popularly considered a cultural critic and philologist whose work exerted a scholarly influence on modern intellectual history. His intellectual works focus on widespread themes such as religion, morality, philosophy, and science. Prominent elements of his philosophy include his radical critique of truth, a genealogical criticism of religion, and Christian morality. His body of work touched a wide range of topics, including art, philology, history, music, tragedy, and culture, most of which drew inspiration from Greek tragedy.

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Ebooks

4693 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 17, 2022

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

[Chris · Rating 2 out of 5]

ugh. i tried.

[Eric Wardowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thick read but good

I admit that I am not a fan of Nietzsche. However, this is a great collection of philosophical works. Like I said in the description, this is a thick read. Going back and rereading parts is par for the course. I gained more respect for Nietzsche from this book.

[Ross · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting book.

I struggle a bit with the truth of the tale. Overall interesting and sad.

[C. S. Thompson · Rating 2 out of 5]

As of this writing, it's a 5-star deal on Kindle. It's always nice to have 1) a new translation and 2) a comprehensive volume. And for the price, why the heck not?

However, this understanding of Nietzsche is sophomoric. The position taken in prefaces and introductions, selected by an overall ignorant editorship, is only a little less silly than the hackneyed and superficial misunderstandings it disclaims.

A welcome addition to my weightless library. But laughable, compared with Kaufmann (who is criticized; See? Funny.) or Hollingdale. If you really want to know how ridiculous the general public sounds, tossing around the term "existential crisis", you'll probably just have to invest in more than this -- what's appropriately priced at about a 12-ounce can of soda from a machine in the 1990s.

By the way, this really is neither #1 nor #2.