The Portable NietzscheThe 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,” and few writers have been so consistently misinterpreted. The Portable Nietzsche includes Kaufmann’s definitive translations of the complete and unabridged texts of Nietzsche’s four major works: Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Nietzsche Contra Wagner and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In addition, Kaufmann brings together selections from his other books, notes, and letters, to give a full picture of Nietzsche’s development, versatility, and inexhaustibility. “In this volume, one may very conveniently have a rich review of one of the most sensitive, passionate, and misunderstood writers in Western, or any, literature.” —Newsweek |
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User Review - Muscogulus - LibraryThingThis is a very good anthology of selections from Nietzsche by his best English translator. Never a systematic philosopher, Nietzsche is easily misunderstood and easy to appropriate dishonestly. He ... Read full review
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User Review - gmicksmith - LibraryThingThis volume includes Thus Spake Zarathustra and the single most well-known, if not the most important, selection from Nietzsche, his famous "God is Dead" scene. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für ... Read full review
Contents
Letter to His Sister | 29 |
Notes 1873 | 39 |
Notes about Wagner | 47 |
From Mixed Opinions and Maxims | 64 |
Letter to Overbeck | 73 |
Postcard to Overbeck | 92 |
Draft of a Letter to Paul Rée | 102 |
FIRST PART | 115 |
On the Way of the Creator | 174 |
On Little Old and Young Women | 177 |
On the Adders Bite | 179 |
On Child and Marriage | 181 |
On Free Death | 183 |
On the GiftGiving Virtue | 186 |
SECOND PART | 191 |
The Child with the Mirror | 195 |
Zarathustras Prologue | 121 |
Zarathustras Speeches 1 On the Three Metamorphoses | 137 |
On the Teachers of Virtue | 140 |
On the Afterworldly | 142 |
On the Despisers of the Body | 146 |
On Enjoying and Suffering the Passions | 148 |
On the Pale Criminal | 149 |
On Reading and Writing | 152 |
On the Tree on the Mountainside | 154 |
On the Preachers of Death | 156 |
On War and Warriors | 158 |
ií On the New Idol | 160 |
On the Flies of the Market Place | 163 |
On Chastity | 166 |
On the Friend | 167 |
On the Thousand and One Goals | 170 |
On Love of the Neighbor | 172 |
Upon the Blessed Isles | 197 |
On the Pitying | 200 |
On Priests | 202 |
On the Virtuous | 205 |
On the Rabble | 208 |
Note 1884 | 440 |
Book V | 447 |
Letter to Overbeck | 454 |
TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS | 463 |
THE ANTICHRIST | 565 |
Froin Ecce Homo | 657 |
CONTRA WAGNER | 662 |
NIETZSCHE CONTRA WAGNER | 663 |
We Antipodes Gay Science 370 | 669 |
Broke Away from Wagner | 675 |
Letters 1889 | 684 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Portable Nietzsche Portable Library |
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Translated by | Walter Kaufmann |
| Contributor | Walter Kaufmann |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin, 1977 |
| ISBN | 0140150625, 9780140150629 |
| Length | 704 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Collections / Essays Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern Philosophy / Individual Philosophers |
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