The Portable Nietzsche
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Few thinkers have shaken the foundations of Western thought as violently or as permanently as Friedrich Nietzsche, and The Portable Nietzsche presents the most essential and electrifying selections of his work in a single, indispensable volume. Edited and translated by the preeminent Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, this anthology brings together complete texts of four of Nietzsche's major works — Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, and Nietzsche Contra Wagner — alongside a carefully curated selection of his letters, notes, and poetry, offering an unparalleled portrait of a philosopher in full. Kaufmann's scholarship is authoritative and transformative; his translations rescued Nietzsche from decades of ideological distortion and restored the philosopher's razor-sharp wit, psychological depth, and poetic brilliance to the English-speaking world. The collection chronicles Nietzsche's relentless assault on morality, religion, and the comfortable certainties of the 19th century, while simultaneously revealing the passionate, tormented humanity beneath the iconoclasm. For the uninitiated and the devoted scholar alike, this volume remains the definitive gateway to one of history's most provocative and misunderstood minds — a thinker whose questions about power, truth, and value remain as urgent and unsettling as ever.
Author: Walter Kaufmann
Format: Paperback
Genre: Philosophy
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few thinkers have shaken the foundations of Western thought as violently or as permanently as Friedrich Nietzsche, and The Portable Nietzsche presents the most essential and electrifying selections of his work in a single, indispensable volume. Edited and translated by the preeminent Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, this anthology brings together complete texts of four of Nietzsche's major works — Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, and Nietzsche Contra Wagner — alongside a carefully curated selection of his letters, notes, and poetry, offering an unparalleled portrait of a philosopher in full. Kaufmann's scholarship is authoritative and transformative; his translations rescued Nietzsche from decades of ideological distortion and restored the philosopher's razor-sharp wit, psychological depth, and poetic brilliance to the English-speaking world. The collection chronicles Nietzsche's relentless assault on morality, religion, and the comfortable certainties of the 19th century, while simultaneously revealing the passionate, tormented humanity beneath the iconoclasm. For the uninitiated and the devoted scholar alike, this volume remains the definitive gateway to one of history's most provocative and misunderstood minds — a thinker whose questions about power, truth, and value remain as urgent and unsettling as ever.