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Beyond Good and Evil, The Anti-Christ, and Ecce Homo - Offers new translations of key pieces from Nietzsche's unpublished "Lenzer Heide" notebook - Provides a wealth of pedagogical features, such as editorial sections on Nietzsche's life and importance, an opening introduction to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

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).

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

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