The Will to PowerRepresents a selection from Nietzche's notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others. Nietzsche's notebooks, kept by him during his most productive years, offer a fascinating glimpse into the workshop and mind of a great thinker, and compare favorably with the notebooks of Gide and Kafka, Camus and Wittgenstein. The Will to Power, compiled from the notebooks, is one of the most famous boooks of the philosophy. Here is the first critical edition in any language. Down through the Nazi period The Will to Power was often mistakenly considered to be Nietzche's crowning systematic labor; since World War II it has frequently been denigrated. In fact, it represents a stunning selection from Nietzsche's notebooks, in a a topical arrangement that enables the reader to find what Nietzsche's wrote on a variety of subjects. Walter Kaufmann, in collaboration with R. J. Holilngdale, brings to this volume his unsurpassed skills as a Nietzsche translator and scholar. Professor Kaufmann has included an approximate date of each note. His running footnote commentary offers information needed to follow Nietzsche's train of thought, and indicates, among other things, which notes were eventually superseded by later formulations. The comprehensive index serves to guide the reader to the extraordinary riches of this book. |
Contents
FACSIMILES from Nietzsches manuscript | 3 |
Nihilism | 9 |
History of European Nihilism | 40 |
Critique of Religion | 85 |
Critique of Morality | 146 |
Critique of Philosophy | 220 |
of Philosophy | 253 |
The Will to Power as Knowledge | 261 |
Theory of the Will to Power and of Values | 366 |
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action Antichrist antinatural antithesis appearance artist beautiful become believe Birth of Tragedy Buddhism cause Christian concept consciousness consequence critique culture danger decadence desire Dionysus displeasure drive edition effect egoism Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche eternal everything evil existence fact faith false feeling of power force German editors goal Goethe Greek happiness herd higher highest hitherto human idea ideal immoral immoralists individual instinct interpretation invented Jan.-Fall judgment kind knowledge lack logic longer mankind March-June means mediocre merely nature Nietzsche's nihilism nihilistic notes one's oneself opposite order of rank passion perhaps pessimism Peter Gast philosophers Plato pleasure Portable Nietzsche possible precisely preservation presupposition psychological Pyrrho question reality reason religion ressentiment Richard Wagner romanticism Schlechta Schopenhauer sense soul species spirit Spring-Fall strength strong struggle suffering thing-in-itself things tion tremendous true truth Twilight valuation virtue Wagner Walter Kaufmann wants weak whole words