Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

ISBN 10: 0679600000 / ISBN 13: 9780679600008

Published by Modern Library, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
• Publisher: Modern Library
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679600000
• ISBN 13: 9780679600008
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 4.1W x 14.2H x 20.8D centimeters 4.1 centimeters width by 14.2 centimeters height by 20.8 centimeters depth

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Synopsis

This captivating collection brings together five of Friedrich Nietzche’s most important philosophical works, exploring themes such as nihilism, metaphysics, and the nature of morality—featuring an introduction by Peter Gay and commentary from Martin Heidegger, Albert Camus, and Gilles Deleuze

More than one hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche’s most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Case of Wagner, and Ecce Homo. 
 
Edited and translated by the great Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, this volume also features seventy-five aphorisms, selections from Nietzsche’s correspondence, and variants from drafts for Ecce Homo. It is a definitive guide to the full range of Nietzsche’s thought.

This edition includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide

About the Author

Peter Gay is Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University and the former director of the Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library. His works include The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom and Modernism: The Lure of Heresy.