The Portable Nietzsche

by Nietzsche, Friedrich; Kaufmann, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780140150629
• ISBN10: 0140150625
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781440674198
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1977-01-27
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary

A rich selection from the whole range of Nietzsche's work, including Twilight of the Idols, The Anti-Christ, Nietzsche Contra Wagner and Thus Spake Zarathustra.

Author Biography

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later. Known for saying that “god is dead,” Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(19)
Chronology	20	(4)
Bibliography	24	(5)
Letter to His Sister	29	(1)
Fragment of a Critique of Schopenhauer	30	(1)
On Ethics	30	(2)
Note (1870-71)	32	(1)
From Homer's Contest	32	(7)
Notes (1873)	39	(3)
From On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense	42	(5)
Notes about Wagner	47	(1)
Notes (1874)	48	(1)
Notes (1875)	48	(3)
From Human, All-Too-Human	51	(13)
From Mixed Opinions and Maxims	64	(4)
From The Wanderer and His Shadow	68	(5)
Letter to Overbeck	73	(1)
Notes (1880-81)	73	(3)
From The Dawn	76	(16)
Postcard to Overbeck	92	(1)
From The Gay Science	93	(9)
Draft of a Letter to Paul Ree	102	(338)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Editor's Preface	103	(9)
Contents	112	(3)
First Part	115	(76)
Second Part	191	(69)
Third Part	260	(83)
Fourth and Last Part	343	(97)
Note (1884)	440	(1)
Letters
To Overbeck	440	(1)
To His Sister	441	(1)
To Overbeck	441	(1)
Notes	441	(1)
From a Draft for a Preface	442	(1)
From Beyond Good and Evil	443	(4)
From The Gay Science: Book V	447	(3)
From Toward a Genealogy of Morals	450	(4)
Letter to Overbeck	454	(1)
Notes (1887)	455	(1)
Letter to His Sister	456	(1)
Notes (1888)	457	(2)
From The Wagner Case	459	(4)
Twilight of The Idols	463	(102)
Editor's Preface	463	(1)
Contents	464	(101)
The Antichrist	565	(96)
Editor's Preface	565	(92)
From Ecce Homo	657	(4)
Nietzsche Contra Wagner	661	(27)
Contents	661	(23)
Letters (1889)	684	(4)
To Gast	685	(1)
To Jacob Burckhardt	685	(2)
To Overbeck	687	(1)
Editions of Nietzsche	688