Basic Writings of Nietzsche

by Friedrich Nietzsche
Basic Writings of Nietzsche
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November 28th 2000 (first published 1968) by Modern Library

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Paperback, 896 pages

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0679783393   (isbn13: 9780679783398)

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A better title for this book might be The Indispensable Writings of Nietzsche. Indeed, the six selections contained in Walter Kaufmann's volume...more






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erik graff
08/23/08

bookshelves: philosophy
Read in December, 1973
recommended to erik by: Janny Marie Willis
recommends it for: everyone
I had already read some of the texts in this collection prior to finding this affordable Modern Library Giant. Having been into Nietzsche for some three years or so already, and being seduced into Kaufmann's style of translation, I was trying to assemble everything, preferably in hardcover.

Nietzsche, like Plato, is a philosopher kids can read with profit. Of course, not being familiar with the historical and cultural contexts out of which they wrote, one can go quite wrong in one's interpr...more
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Vanja
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12/23/07

Read in December, 2006
recommends it for: philosophically inclined and open-minded
First, a note about the collection itself. It includes Nietzsche’s: “The Birth of Tragedy”, “Beyond Good and Evil”, “On the Genealogy of Morals”, “Case of Wagner”, and “Ecce Homo”. These are all excellent books, and the first three may serve as excellent introductions and general surveys of Nietzsche, especially the second and third in the list.

Also, there is a miscellaneous collection of sections from other books, notes, and letters.

For those that want to read mo...more
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Steve
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09/15/07

Read in January, 1982
recommends it for: Everyone
I recommend all of Nietzsche's works, especially the Walter Kaufmann translations. Kaufmann was born in Germany and moved to the U.S. as a young adult so he understood German and American culture from the insider's perspective. He became a philosopher in his own right so he understands Nietzsche from that perspective, as well. He gathered the majority of Nietzsche's writings into 2 volumes, The Portable Nietzsche and The Basic Writings.

Nietzsche is always provocative, especially when you str...more
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Eric
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06/22/07

Read in February, 1998
recommends it for: cocky bastards
Nietzsche is nothing if not provocative. And you've got to read this stuff with a critical mind to it - if you're just trying to accept it all you'll get angry pretty quick. But Nietzsche is pretty much trying to break down the ways in which acceptance and complacence were institutionalized by European culture - and continue to be.

But you've got the whole range here - The Birth of Tragedy is you...more
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Lawrence
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11/24/08

Central to this read: Beyond Good and Evil, Genealogy of Morals, Ecce Homo. Not easy.
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Jake
03/14/08

Read in January, 2008
I got this book just before Christmas, and fired through it in just a few days.

As with most of Kaufmann's translations (interpretations) of Nietzsche, this book is rife with expository information and background and foreground essays on the work and its relation to Nietzsche's philosophy, how N. was influenced in each by those before him, and how each work influenced those after him. Fascinating.
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Christopher
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11/12/08

Love it. Just don't run a country and commit genocide after... like SOME people... geesh. Honestly though, I don't know which work Hitler read, but you can understand his confusions in some cases. Ubermache concept is solid. The short, one sentence sections toward the end, where he makes one liners about...everything, is one of my favorite.
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Aaron
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11/04/08

Read in November, 2008
recommended to Aaron by: John Martinez, Luther Hammett, Megan Durbin
recommends it for: Everyone in college. The content would make anyone else's head explode.
Wow. Deep. The thinking that this man (Neitzsche) puts into his thought progressions is simply amazing. "O Socrates, Socrates, was that perhaps your secret? O enigmatic ironist, was that perhaps your--irony?" Need I say more? Talking about pessimism (Attempt at Self-Criticism) and throwing shit in the faces of pessimists...awesome!
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Bryan
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07/12/08

Walter Kaufman is one of the foremost Nietzsche scholars and has provided perhaps the most in-depth commentary and proper translation available. Hands down the best edition. It includes Ecce Homo, Beyond Good and Evil, THe Geneology of Moral, and some other works.
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Amy
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09/04/08

I read _The Birth of Tragedy_ at the same time as Arne Naess. The confluence was really interesting. Basically, liberal democracy is still suffering from something... but we still can't quite put our finger on what the hell it is.
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Leonard
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05/16/08

bookshelves: philosophy
Here's the deal: whether you love him or hate him -- and there's plenty of people on both sides -- you simply cannot understand modern philosophy, or modern thought of any kind at all, without reading Nietzsche. Start here.
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Christopher
Read this along with the Viking Portable Nietzsche, the Kaufmann biography, and What Nietzsche Really Said, and you probably won't misunderstand him as badly as I did.
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Eli
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06/03/08

birth of tragedy was not that good. beyond good and evil was only a little better. genealogy of morals, the case of wagner, and ecce homo were really good.
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Eileen
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08/10/07

bookshelves: non-fiction
I read this in my freshmen Humanities class and was intrigued. While Friedrich was a profound atheist and I am not, I still appreciate his thoughts and ideas.
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Corbin
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10/01/07

Only read THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY and ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS from this anthology--but both were phenomenal. Kaufman's comments were also very helpful.
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John
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07/08/08

bookshelves: philosophy
One of my ultimate favorite collections of philosophical works, I must have hundreds of little bookmarkers in the pages of this book.
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Michael
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10/26/08

Read in October, 2008
I've only read "The Birth of Tragedy" in this collection, but it was good.
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Joseph
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05/08/08

Fairy tales can come true
It can happen to you
If you're young at heart
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Danny
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07/10/08

bookshelves: currently-reading

07/10/08 Currently reading Beyond Good and Evil
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Abbey
Abbey is currently reading it
09/03/07

bookshelves: currently-reading
Read in August, 2007
recommends it for: brandon webb prodigies
I'm utterly confused at this point
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