Nietzsche's The Birth Of Tragedy

In this, his first book, Nietzsche developed a way of thinking about the arts that unites the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus as the central symbol of human existence. Although...

The Case Of Wagner

The book is a critique of Richard Wagner and the announcement of Nietzsche's rupture with the German artist, who had involved himself too much, in Nietzsche's eyes, in the...

The Genealogy Of Morals

We are unknown, we knowers, ourselves to ourselves: this has its own good reason. We have never searched for ourselves—how should it then come to pass, that we should ever find...

The Will To Power: An Attempted Transvaluation Of All Values

What I am now going to relate is the history of the next two centuries. I shall describe what will happen, what must necessarily happen: the triumph of Nihilism. This history can...

Beyond Good And Evil

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886. It draws on and expands the ideas of his...

The Joyful Wisdom

This book "the Joyful Wisdom," was written in 1882, shortly before "Zarathustra", is considered the best work by Nietzsche. It is interesting to discover how...

The Birth Of Tragedy: Hellenism And Pessimism

Nietzsche found in classical Athenian tragedy an art form that transcended the pessimism and nihilism of a fundamentally meaningless world. The Greek spectators, by looking into...

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None

The book chronicles the fictitious travels and speeches of Zarathustra. Zarathustra's namesake was the founder of Zoroastrianism, usually known in English as Zoroaster....

The Twilight Of The Idols: How To Philosophize With The Hammer

Nietzsche criticizes German culture of the day as unsophisticated, decadent and nihilistic, and shoots some disapproving arrows at key French, British, and Italian cultural...

We Philologists

The subject of education was one to which Nietzsche, especially during his residence in Basel, paid considerable attention, and his insight into it was very much deeper than that...

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