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Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Modern Library Classics)

33 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche

Modern Library, 2000

Essential works by important thinker
Whether you agree with him or not, Nietzsche's thought is pivotal in understanding modern Western society. This one-volume compilation provides an excellent introduction to his core philosophy.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All

101 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1978

One of the most challenging works I have ever read
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (originally Also Sprach Zarathustra) is considered by some (myself included) to have been the crowning work of the nineteenth century German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900). Unlike most modern philosophical works, Zarathustra's format harkens back to the Bible and to the ancient Greek works such as Plato's dialogues. In it, Zarathustra wanders the ...

Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics)

72 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche

Penguin Classics, 2003

A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power
This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of a "will to power" is central to his philosophical beliefs, and a recurring theme in his book "Beyond Good and Evil." When Nietzsche was a budding philosopher, he admired and was influenced by the writings of another philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer. However, Schopenhauer, like most scientists ...

The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

26 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche

Vintage, 1974

THE FAVOURITE: JOY THANKS TO LUCIDITY
For the admirers of Nietzsche and those who love to read him, "The Gay Science" is somehow their FAVOURITE BOOK. In this work the hughe, great German philosopher and psychologist (honour to whom it deserves!) confronts us with a rather fleet-footed, almost "dancing" way of writing about his eternal themes that never ever have left his thoughts, his way of thinking and his brilliant pen. HERE is ...

On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

18 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche

Vintage, 1989

On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo.
_On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo_ consists of translations by Walter Kaufman and R. J. Hollingdale of the works _On the Genealogy of Morals, A Polemic_ (_Zur Genealogie der Moral, Eine Streitschrift_), first published in 1887, and _Ecce Homo_, written in 1888, by the tormented German thinker Friedrich Nietzsche. _On the Genealogy of Morals_ was Nietzsche's eighth book and consists of ...

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

28 reviews
William Barrett

Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1962

Between the immediate and the theoretical
Nothing is more exhausting than the search for meaning. Every question has a thousand answers, each claiming to be correct. And each can be challenged by a thousand objections. Evermore we come out the same door as in we went, and return to -- ourselves. We alone are unavoidably the final arbiters of our personal beliefs and values. Occasionally we have the good fortune to find a guide through ...

The Portable Nietzsche (Viking Portable Library)

42 reviews

Penguin Books, 1977

A Correction of False Vulgarization of Neitzsche
A recent interesing discussion encouraged this reviewer to comment on this book edited by the late Walter Kaufmann. This anthology undermines the false popularlization of Nietzsche, and serious readers get a better understanding of Nietzsche than is provided by critis many of whom have probably not read Nietzsche. One should avoid "slick manuals and canned opinions edited at the editor's table. ...

The Will to Power

50 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche

Vintage, 1968

The Will to Power book is better than Prozac and Zoloft
This book is a better anti-depressant and energizer than any antidepressant in the market. This book will give you more physical and mental strength than any visit to your therapist, any prozac and zoloft. I say this because i suffer from depression and low self esteem, and any time i read this book, it makes me want to lift weights and do something great. So if you feel low, and want to ...

When Nietzsche Wept

66 reviews
Irvin D. Yalom, 2005

Very good book in understanding obsession
Nietzsche and Beuer meet... and their contact will bring both of them closer to getting to know themselves better. They are both ruled by obsession, and at first they are unable to see it. As time goes by, one becomes the other's mirror, and the reader's as well, showing us the power of obsession over us, and how our wishful thinking can create worlds of illusions that will dissociate us away ...

The Anti-Christ

48 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche

FQ Classics, 2007

An essay against the Platonism for the poor
In this essay Nietzsche denounces Christianity "as the institutionalized negation of the will to live" (as did Adorno in his Negative Dialectics). For Nietzsche decadent morals, such as the Christian one, refer to an ideal order and make their codes conform to it, not to the reality. But the genesis of an ideal hides human (very human) reasons. Values and categorical imperatives arise from a ...

The Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer (Penguin Classics)

24 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche

Penguin Classics, 1990

A good place to start
This was the first Nietzsche I read about 6 years ago at University. I only understood about 40% of it and have reread it about 3 times, each time understanding more. Anything of Nietzsche's is good. It's just a matter of rereading it if you really don't get it. The bits which at first seem like padding become the most interesting bits eventually. This is a good place to start partly ...

The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

2 reviews

Cambridge University Press, 1996

Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche
I felt that this Cambridge Companion was extremely well written and provides an inquisitive and responsible look at Nietzsches works. It provides a rational and judicious insight into Nietzsches philosophical writtings, as well as his personal life, allowing the reader to further understand this often times misrepresented philosopher. Any Cambridge Companion is a must for an individual who is ...

The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner

30 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche

Vintage, 1967

The Op. 1 of Frederic Niezsche !
The first essay of this giant philosopher is deeply influenced for the echoes of Schopenhauer and Richard Wagner and pretends expose a new conception of the world : the tragic thought, , the intuition of the unity of the things , the converse affirmation of the life and death , the timeless return , the innocence of becoming . Fundamental text if you want to get ready for the Apollonian and ...

Beyond Good and Evil

5 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche

Digireads.com, 2005

A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power
This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of a "will to power" is central to his philosophical beliefs, and a recurring theme in his book "Beyond Good and Evil." When Nietzsche was a budding philosopher, he admired and was influenced by the writings of another philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer. However, Schopenhauer, like most scientists ...

Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

28 reviews
Walter A. Kaufmann

Princeton University Press, 1975

Kaufmann did a great job
Walter Kaufmann wrote some of the best available translations of Nietzsche's work, most of which can only be appreciated by understanding how bad past scholarship was on Nietzsche. However, the issue for a book should be how well it speaks to us now, rather than how well it would have spoken to us then. How well suited is Kaufmann for this task? First, Kaufmann has translated many poems, ...

Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

3 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche

Cambridge University Press, 1999

Greeks, those who made life seem most seductive...
Although I'd spent some time reading Nietzsche somewhat intensively, I'm far from being a "student of Nietzsche," let alone a "Nietzsche scholar." My reading of him was more as a disturbed soul than as a student/scholar, and I didn't get much in the way of philosophical achievement of his. One of my plans for the summer is to read him more carefully and more with an eye to his intellectual ...

Nietzsche: Volumes One and Two: Volumes One and Two (Nietzsche, Vols. I & II)

10 reviews
Martin Heidegger

HarperOne, 1991

Mesmerizing and Meditative; The Mind of Heidegger
. If you like Nietzsche, don't ignore Heidegger's monumental achievement. Walter Kaufmann's Nietzche, psychologist and philosopher and on Heidegger in Kaufmann's, Discovering The Mind, Vol II, criticizes Heidegger to a great degree. In much of Kaufmann's objections to Heidegger's analogy of Nietzsche include his attempt to explain man's "essential ontology" into what really amounts to ...

Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

7 reviews
Michael Tanner

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

Excellent
This is a superb introduction to Nietzsche, one that goes beyond a recitation of works and main points, although it contains that aspect, also. Tanner knows Nietzsche from the ground up, and he has produced an overview and evaluation that is at once sympathetic and tough-minded. For example, there are many who claim that 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' is Nietzche's greatest book; Tanner explains why ...

Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

18 reviews
Friedrich Nietzsche

Cambridge University Press, 1996

Correction
I feel obligated to correct a distortion suggested by `unraveler' below. It is popular to suggest Nietzsche was an anti-semite, but this is a rather lazy habit. Nietzsche's remark on `the youthful stock-exchange Jew' was mentioned. Here it is in its proper environment: . . . the entire problem of the Jews exists only within national states, inasmuch as it is here that their energy and higher ...

Days of War, Nights of Love : Crimethink For Beginners

34 reviews
Crimethink Workers Collective, Nadia C., ...

CrimethInk, 2001

thought provoking
i read this book about a year ago and my life has seriously changed because of my reading it...just as the book suggests in the beginning...i did not buy into everything that was put out in the book...some of the stuff in this book is pretty out there imo...i for one like showers, deoderant, cologne, using electricity, and i even like my job...so i used it more as a way to tweak my outlook on ...

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