The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner: Volume 9

Friedrich Nietzsche

ISBN 10: 0804728828 / ISBN 13: 9780804728829

Published by Stanford University Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner: Volume 9
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804728828
• ISBN 13: 9780804728829
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The year 1888 marked the last year of Friedrich Nietzsche's intellectual career and the culmination of his philosophical development. In that final productive year, he worked on six books, all of which are now, for the first time, presented in English in a single volume. Together these new translations provide a fundamental and complete introduction to Nietzsche's mature thought and to the virtuosity and versatility of his most fully developed style.

The writings included here have a bold, sometimes radical tone that can be connected to Nietzsche's rising profile and growing confidence. In The Antichrist, we are offered an extended critique of Christianity and Christian morality alongside blunt diagnoses of contemporary Europe's cultural decadence. In Dionysus Dithyrambs we are presented with his only work composed exclusively of poetry, and in Twilight of the Idols we find a succinct summary of his mature philosophical views. At times the works are also openly personal, as in The Case of Wagner, which presents Nietzsche's attempt to settle accounts with his former close friend, German composer Richard Wagner, and in his provocative autobiography, Ecce Homo, which sees Nietzsche taking stock of his past and future while also reflecting on many of his earlier texts.

Scrupulously edited, this critical volume also includes commentary by esteemed Nietzsche scholar Andreas Urs Sommer. Through this new collection, students and scholars are given an essential introduction to Nietzsche's late thought.

About the Author

Andreas Urs Sommer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg. Since 2008, he has been Director of the Friedrich-Nietzsche-Stiftung and has served as Director of the research center "Nietzsche-Kommentar" at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 2014.