Political Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche An Edited Anthology

by Cameron, Frank; Dombowsky, Don

• ISBN13: 9780230537729
• ISBN10: 0230537723
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book is an anthology that gathers together, for the first time, the political commentary and writings found throughout Nietzsche's corpus. Included is an historical introduction which demonstrates that Nietzsche was an observer of and responded to the political events which defined the Bismarckian era.

Author Biography

Don Dombowsky lectures in Philosophy at Bishop's University, Canada.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Abbreviations	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Schulpforta, 1862	p. 24
Preface	p. 24
Napoleon III as President	p. 26
Saint-Just	p. 29
Two-poem cycle 'Two Kings'	p. 30
Louis the Sixteenth	p. 30
Louis the Fifteenth	p. 30
Agonistic Politics, 1871-1874	p. 31
Preface	p. 31
The Greek State, 1871	p. 38
On the Future of Our Educational Institutions, Third Lecture, February 27, 1872	p. 46
Homer's Contest, 1872	p. 52
Untimely Meditations	p. 58
David Strauss: the Confessor and the Writer, 1873	p. 58
Schopenhauer as Educator, 1874	p. 61
The Free Spirit, 1878-1880	p. 72
Preface	p. 72
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, 1878	p. 75
Miscellaneous Maxims and Opinions, 1879	p. 100
The Wanderer and His Shadow, 1880	p. 105
The Campaign against Morality, 1881-1885	p. 116
Preface	p. 116
Dawn: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality, 1881	p. 119
The Gay Science, 1882	p. 137
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One, 1883-1885	p. 151
On the new idol	p. 151
On the rabble	p. 153
On the tarantulas	p. 154
On old and new tablets	p. 156
Nachlass Fragments, 1883-1885	p. 160
Aristocratic Radical, 1886-1887	p. 171
Preface	p. 171
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, 1886	p. 175
The Gay Science, Book V, 1887	p. 212
On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemical Tract, 1887	p. 218
First Essay, Good and Evil, Good and Bad	p. 218
Second Essay, Guilt, Bad Conscience and Related Matters	p. 224
Third Essay, What Do Ascetic Ideals Mean?	p. 230
Nachlass Fragments, 1885-1887	p. 232
The Antichrist, 1888	p. 240
Preface	p. 240
Twilight of the Idols: Or How One Philosophises with a Hammer, 1888	p. 243
Morality as Anti-Nature	p. 243
The 'Improvers' of Mankind	p. 244
What the Germans Lack	p. 245
Skirmishes of an Untimely Man	p. 248
The Antichrist: A Curse on Christianity, 1888	p. 256
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is, 1888	p. 270
Why I am so wise	p. 270
Why I write such good books	p. 272
The case of Wagner: A musician's problem	p. 274
Why I am a destiny	p. 275
Nachlass Fragments, 1887-1888	p. 276
Notes	p. 293
Primary and Secondary Historical Works	p. 305
Selected Bibliography	p. 309
Index	p. 322
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