Basic Writings of Nietzsche

by Nietzsche, Friedrich; Gay, Peter; Kaufmann, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780679783398
• ISBN10: 0679783393
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780307417695
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-28
• Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
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Summary

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 provides a definitive guide to the full range of Nietzsche's thought. Included also are seventy-five aphorisms, selections from Nietzsche's correspondence, and variants from drafts for Ecce Homo. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Peter Gay
A Note on This Edition	xvii
Introduction by the Editor	xix
Acknowledgments	xxv
Basic Writings of Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy	1	(144)
Seventy-Five Aphorisms from Five Volumes	145	(34)
Beyond Good and Evil	179	(258)
On the Genealogy of Morals	437	(164)
The Case of Wagner	601	(54)
Ecce Homo	655	(148)
Indices	803	(44)
Commentary	847	(14)
Reading Group Guide	861