The Nietzsche Reader

by Ansell-Pearson, Keith; Large, Duncan

• ISBN13: 9780631226543
• ISBN10: 0631226540
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Nietzsche Reader brings together in one volume substantial selections from the entire body of Nietzsche's writings, together with illuminating commentary on Nietzsche's life and importance, and introductions to his major works and philosophical ideas. - Includes selections from all the major texts, including The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Anti-Christ, and Ecce Homo - Offers new translations of key pieces from Nietzsche's unpublished "Lenzer Heide" notebook - Provides a wealth of pedagogical features, such as editorial sections on Nietzsche's life and importance, an opening introduction to his philosophical ideas, introductions to each major section, and a comprehensive guide to further reading

Author Biography

Keith Ansell Pearson holds a Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He co-founded the Friedrich Nietzsche Society and is renowned for his work on Nietzsche, Bergson, and Deleuze. He recently edited A Companion to Nietzsche (Blackwell, 2005).

Duncan Large is Senior Lecturer in German at University of Wales Swansea and former Chairman of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society. He is author of Nietzsche and Proust: A Comparative Study (2001), and translator and editor of both Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols (1998) and Sarah Kofman’s Nietzsche and Metaphor (1993).

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiv
Abbreviations	xvii
General Introduction	xviii
A Chronology of Friedrich Nietzsche	xli
Part I Beginnings	1	(30)
Introduction	3	(28)
1 Fate and History: Thoughts (1862)	12	(4)
2 Freedom of Will and Fate (1862)	16	(2)
3 My Life (1863)	18	(3)
4 On Moods (1864)	21	(3)
5 On Schopenhauer (1868)	24	(7)
Part II Early Writings	31	(120)
Introduction	33	(81)
6 The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music (1872)	42	(46)
7 The Greek State (1871-2)	88	(7)
8 Homer's Contest (1872)	95	(6)
9 Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (1873)	101	(13)
10 On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (1873)	114	(10)
11 On the Utility and Liability of History for Life (1874)	124	(18)
12 Schopenhauer as Educator (1874)	142	(9)
Part III The Middle Period	151	(92)
Introduction	153	(8)
13 Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, volume 1 (1878)	161	(30)
Section 1: Of First and Last Things	161	(9)
Section 2: On the History of Moral Feelings	170	(9)
Section 4: From the Soul of Artists and Writers	179	(1)
Section 5: Signs of Higher and Lower Culture	180	(3)
Section 8: A Look at the State	183	(4)
Section 9: Man Alone with Himself	187	(4)
14 Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881)	191	(16)
Book I	191	(5)
Book II	196	(5)
Book III	201	(4)
Book V	205	(2)
15 The Gay Science (1882)	207	(31)
Book I	207	(5)
Book II	212	(7)
Book III	219	(7)
Book IV	226	(12)
16 Notes from 1881	238	(5)
Part IV Thus Spoke Zarathustra	243	(50)
Introduction	245	(9)
17 Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One (1883-5)	254	(39)
Zarathustra's Prologue	254	(9)
Zarathustra's Discourses	263	(1)
Part I:
Of the Three Metamorphoses	263	(1)
Of the Despisers of the Body	264	(1)
Of the Thousand and One Goals	265	(2)
Of the Bestowing Virtue	267	(3)
Part II:
Of Self-Overcoming	270	(2)
Of Immaculate Perception	272	(2)
Of Redemption	274	(3)
Part III:
Of the Vision and the Riddle	277	(3)
Of the Spirit of Gravity	280	(2)
The Convalescent	282	(4)
Part IV:
The Sleepwalker's Song	286	(5)
The Sign	291	(2)
Part V The Later Writings	293	(232)
1886-1887	295	(142)
Introduction	297	(14)
18 Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1886)	311	(51)
Preface	311	(1)
Section 1: On the Prejudices of Philosophers	312	(12)
Section 2: The Free Spirit	324	(8)
Section 3: The Religious Disposition	332	(4)
Section 4: Epigrams and Interludes	336	(3)
Section 5: Towards a Natural History of Morals	339	(5)
Section 6: We Scholars	344	(3)
Section 7: Our Virtues	347	(3)
Section 8: Peoples and Fatherlands	350	(4)
Section 9: What Is Noble?	354	(8)
19 The Gay Science, Book V (1887)	362	(23)
20 European Nihilism (1887)	385	(5)
21 On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic (1887)	390	(49)
Preface	390	(5)
First Essay: "Good and Evil," "Good and Bad"	395	(13)
Second Essay: "Guilt," "Bad Conscience," and Related Matters	408	(16)
Third Essay: What Do Ascetic Ideals Mean?	424	(13)
1888-1889	437	(88)
Introduction	439	(12)
22 The Case of Wagner: A Musicians' Problem (1888)	451	(5)
23 Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer (1888)	456	(30)
Maxims and Barbs	456	(2)
The Problem of Socrates	458	(4)
"Reason" in Philosophy	462	(2)
How the "Real World" Finally Became a Fable	464	(1)
Morality as Anti-Nature	465	(3)
The Four Great Errors	468	(5)
The "Improvers" of Humanity	473	(1)
Reconnaissance Raids of an Untimely Man	473	(10)
What I Owe the Ancients	483	(3)
24 The Anti-Christ: Curse on Christianity (1888)	486	(14)
25 Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (1888)	500	(17)
Foreword	500	(2)
Why I Am So Wise	502	(4)
Why I Am So Clever	506	(3)
Why I Write Such Good Books	509	(5)
Why I Am a Destiny	514	(3)
26 Four Letters (1888-9)	517	(8)
To Georg Brandes, April 10, 1888	517	(2)
To Karl Knortz, June 21, 1888	519	(1)
To Franz Overbeck, October 18, 1888	520	(1)
To Jacob Burckhardt, January 6, 1889	521	(4)
A Guide to Further Reading	525	(20)
Index	545