The Nietzsche Reader [Hardcover]

The Nietzsche Reader brings together in one volume substantial selections from the entire body of Nietzsche’s writings, together with illuminating commentary on Nietzsche’s life and importance, and introductions to his major works and philosophical ideas.

• Includes selections from all the major texts, including The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Anti-Christ, and Ecce Homo

• Offers new translations of key pieces from Nietzsche’s unpublished “Lenzer Heide” notebook

• Provides a wealth of pedagogical features, such as editorial sections on Nietzsche’s life and importance, an opening introduction to his philosophical ideas, introductions to each major section, and a comprehensive guide to further reading

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

General Introduction.

A Chronology Friedrich Nietzsche..

Part I: Beginnings.

Introduction.

1. Fate and History: Thoughts (1862).

2. Freedom of Will and Fate (1862).

3. My Life (1863).

4. On Moods (1864).

5. On Schopenhauer (1868)..

Part II: Early Writings.

Introduction.

6. The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music (1872).

7. The Greek State (1871-2).

8. Homer's Contest (1872).

9. Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (1873).

10. On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (1873).

11. On the Utility and Liability of History for Life (1874).

12. Schopenhauer as Educator (1874)..<lƒ)