Reading Nietzsche

by Solomon, Robert C.; Higgins, Kathleen M.

• ISBN13: 9780195048582
• ISBN10: 019504858X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1989-01-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Addressing the issue of how to read Nietzsche, this book presents an accessible series of essays for students and general readers on Nietzsche's individual works, written by such distinguished Nietzsche scholars as Frithjof Bergmann, Arthur Danto, Bernd Magnus, Christopher Middleton, Eric Blondel, Lars Gustaffson, Alexander Nehamas, Richard Schacht, Gary Shapiro, Hugh Silverman, and Ivan Soll. Among the works discussed are On the Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight of the Idols and The Will to Power.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. xi
Chronology of Nietzsche's Works	p. xiii
Introduction: Reading Nietzsche	p. 3
Some Remarks on The Genealogy of Morals	p. 13
Nietzsche's Critique of Morality	p. 29
Who Are ""The Philosophers of the Future""?: A Reading of Beyond Good and Evil	p. 46
Notes	p. 66
Nietzsche's Letters and a Poem	p. 87
Pessimism and the Tragic View of Life: Reconsiderations of Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy	p. 104
Notes	p. 129
Reading Zarathustra	p. 132
Conclusion	p. 150
Notes	p. 151
The Deification of the Commonplace: Twilight of the Idols1	p. 152
Dr. Nietzsche's Office Hours Are Between 10 and 12 A.M	p. 182
Nietzsche's Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality	p. 186
The Writing on the Wall: The Antichrist and the Semiotics of History	p. 192
Notes	p. 215
The Use and Abuse of The Will to Power	p. 218
Notes	p. 232
Bibliography	p. 237
Contributors	p. 247
Index	p. 249
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