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Introducing Nietzsche: A Graphic Guide

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Why must we believe that God is dead? Can we accept that traditional morality is just a 'useful mistake'? Did the principle of 'the will to power' lead to the Holocaust? What are the limitations of scientific knowledge? Is human evolution complete or only beginning? It is difficult to overestimate the importance of Friedrich Nietzsche for our present epoch. His extraordina ...more
Paperback, 176 pages
Published January 15th 2005 by Icon Books (first published 1993)
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Amira Mahmoud
Oct 21, 2015 Amira Mahmoud rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition

نيتشه ودوستويفسكي، يا الجمال! :)))

Hayel Barakat
Nov 07, 2015 Hayel Barakat rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: فلسفة
كتاب لافت عن نيتشه

نيتشه كان من أبرز الممهّدين لعلم النفس وكان عالم لغويات متميزاً. كان متشائم ومنعزل الى حد بعيد. يكره الخلطة ويستحقر الدين، يكره النساء وتكلم عن الحب والحقيقة والاخلاق.
تطرق الكاتب في هذا الكتاب للتحدث عن فيلسوف اثار لغطاً واسعاً بعد موته. في اراءه عن النفس والحب والجنس، مما أدى الى تغير جذري في مسلك علم النفس المعاصر.

سيجموند فرويد ترجم فلسفة نيتشه الى علم سيكولوجي معاصر أثر في سير العلم النفسي القائم حالياً. االكتاب يوضح اهم اراء فلسفة نيتشه التي صاغها بعد تأثره بفليسوف التشاؤم
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Ibrahim Saad


هناك مفارقة عجيبة في حياة نيتشة ، فهذا الطفل الذي كان والده قسيسًا لوثريًا، من أسرة ارستقراطية الأصل، و الذي كان كثير من أجداده من جهة الأب أو الأم قساوسة ورجال دين، وقد تأثر في نشأته بهذه الروح، حتى دعاه أصحابه في المدرسة وهو مازال صغيرًا بـ" الراعي الصغير" أو " القسيس الصغير، و قد قرأت أنه كان قادرًا على ترتيل بعض آيات الإنجيل والتراتيل الدينية المؤثرة، التي تكاد أن تثير البكاء، هذا الطفل لم تكن أسرته تعلم أنه سيكون فيما بعد أكبر مناهض للمسيحية، وسيخرج من يديه كتاب اسمه " عدو المسيح " وأنه قد
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Tim Pendry
This book is part of a series of graphic accounts of significant modern philosophers and ideas. The original idea behind the series was that you could educate through a combination of image and crisp short summaries of the life and history of complicated people and concepts.

This is both absurd and helpful. None of these books (largely produced in the post-modern fervour of the 1990s) can do more than skim the surface of a subject. Ideas can be so foreshortened that they are meaningless to the u
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Jigar Brahmbhatt
Jul 07, 2016 Jigar Brahmbhatt rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Very helpful if you want a quick taste of all his ideas, make a list of those that interest you the most, and dig them further in more scholarly books. Here are some random jottings:

1) Kant epitomized the tradition of thought going back to Plato which seeks knowledge of final truths beyond the confines of our daily experience, an underlying timeless reality (like Schopenhauer’s idea of Will). This conception of truth wants to transcend the particular facts of any culture or individual or indeed
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Donald
Dec 26, 2009 Donald rated it really liked it
Shelves: philosophy
I found this while at the bookshop looking for something else. I liked the look of the cover so I picked it up and had a flick through. It is very pretty and very desirable. Introductory texts like this often pique my interest but my sense of pride, or machismo, makes me hesitate. The booming voice in my head says: not tough enough for the original material, Senor Quixote? And I am not. I've trudged through a couple of Nietzche's works and found it heavy going, not much of it stuck.

But I walked
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Rajiv
Mar 07, 2013 Rajiv rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
I can't tell you just how brilliant this book is. Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the greatest philosophers of all time, and his ideas can be difficult to understand. He has also produced a lot of books, which are dense and rife with allegories, philosophical thoughts, and reflections on life, reality, and religion, among other things. This book, a collaboration by Gane and Piero, does an amazing work of condensing his thoughts into an accessible format.

The text is clear, sharp, and easy to unders
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Sebah Al-Ali
Aug 11, 2013 Sebah Al-Ali rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: summer-13
وجدته وبدأت به لأني أردت معرفة المزيد عن نيتشه. بدايته كانت ممتعة، حتى بدأت تختلط الأمور. و تحول الكتاب من كتاب عن نيتشه لكتاب يناقش أفكار و أشخاص و في طريقه أحيانا يذكر نيتشه من مبدأ "و بالمناسبة." لا أعرف، ضعت به، بمعنى الكلمة.

لا أعرف ما هو المقصود من الكتاب، أو إن كانت المشكلة في الترجمة، لكن لا أنصح به من يريد الإطلاع على سيرة حياة نيتشه بشكل عام و يريد التعرف على شيء من أفكاره.

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تعلمت:
- اسمه فردرش نيتشه، ولد 1844 لعائلة روسية متدينة.
- بعد وفاة والده في الخامسة من عمره، نشأ و قضى ما تبقى م
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ShaYmaa El-AGamy
بعد مقدمة في الفلسفة إنك تبدأ لنيتشه كان تحدي كبير وصعب .. لان الافكار مهشمة وغير واضحة وتحتاج لكثير من التدقيق ،،
شخص يكره المسيحية ويفضل اليهودية ذلك رغم إلحاده الواضح ،،
فراقه لصديق وبعده عنه لمجرد أختلافه معه في وحهة النظر !
من نيتشه كيف يفكر ولما يفكر هكذا !! ما نظرته للحياة والطبيعة والمعاني والالفاظ والمسميات ووجهة النظر السياسية !
كفلسفة لا أفقه بها شيئا ،، ولذا فالرحلة مستمره وربما اعود للكتاب مره أخري ....
فتحي سرور
سلسلة"أقدم لك" بصفة عامة تعتبر من السلاسل الموصى بها بشدة للمبتداين،في هذا الجزء تحديداً أجتهد المؤلفان في أدخال القارئ لعالم نيتشه المميز بسلام،و أظنهم نجحوا،لن أناقش أفكار نيتشه ألا بعد الأحتكاك به بشكل مباشر.
Will
Jan 23, 2016 Will rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: books-2011
Edition 1-84046-627-8

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This timeless, non-physical cosmic force doesn't lead Schopenhauer to the diea of God. Instead, Will is seen as the source of suffering, since wissing never brings contentment, but only futher desire.

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Music is distingushied from all the other arts by the fact that it is not a copy of the phenomenon . . . but a direct copy of the will itself.

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if we chop up the endless tontinuum of the world into manageable pieces for our digestion, let us not imagine that the menu we prepa
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Elius
Mar 25, 2013 Elius rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Recommended to Elius by: Rajiv
You know, I haven't read much Nietzsche, but I felt good reading it. I know it's just a summary, and I may be wrong, but he has a morbid optimism in his philosophy. He knew people aren't ready for his ideas, but they will be, and when they do, his writing's will help them leave their humanity behind and be Supermen.

How can I not respect that?
ابراهيم
تعتبر هذه السلسلة.سلسلة أقدم لك.مدخلا لا بأس به فى سبر أغوار الفلسفة .والفلاسفة.عن طريق عرض اراء وأفكار الشخصية المختارة .بأسلوب بسيط.مدعم بالصور .كالمجلات المصورة .مما يسهل على غير المتعمقين من أمثالى.
Chiron
Feb 23, 2015 Chiron rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: read-in-2015
My version is illustrated by Kitty Chan not Piero. Looking at an online preview it seems that they kept the text the same but re-illustrated it with Piero. Not sure why - I enjoyed the art in my old version. Anyway, I thought the book was a very understandable introduction and has me inspired to read some real books by Nietzsche now. I've been reading several books in this series and this one is definitely one of the best - I appreciate the use of many direct quotes from Nietzsche's works and a ...more
Sleepless
Apr 11, 2016 Sleepless rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: philosophy
** Read for the international philosophy olympiad**

This series is becoming a favorite of mine. These books take complicated ideas and manage to make them easily understood. I've been wanting to read Nietzsche for basically ever but found myself intimidated by his books. After reading this, I feel a bit more confident that I'll be able to read something original Nietzsche wrote and maybe even understand a bit of it.

I find Nietzsche fasinating. He's such an incredible influence on our culture. I
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Dylan Grant
The first book I read by Nietzsche was Thus Spake Zarathustra. At the end of my edition of the book there was an essay that said that Thus Spake Zarathustra is the most inaccessible of Nietzsche's works, and it should be read only after having read the rest of his body of work. Gee, would have liked to know that beforehand!

That being said, I still enjoyed Thus Spake Zarathustra immensely, even though I did not agree with its opinions all of the time. Ever since I read it I was looking for a boo
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Amanda L
The illustrations really carried this the whole way through. For being shy of 200 pages and averaging about 3 sentences per page, it is perhaps a bit too brief, in that it requires the reader to thoroughly connect the dots to produce a clear picture. Sometimes I'd sit there puzzled thinking about a page for longer than it took to read the text.

It's worthwhile in that it offers perspective on the history and the other key players making major contributions to Western thought in Nietzsche's time.
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Nicholas Lee
May 04, 2013 Nicholas Lee rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Intro to Nietzsche serves as didactic primer for those unfamiliar to him and his works. What's great about this book is that there are colorful and enagaing illustrations to complement the concise takeaway points strewn throughout the book. The first half of the book details Nietzsche's life, while the second half more broadly addresses his beliefs, along with more contemporary philosophers that cited him as their primary influence.

What I didn't like was the book's lack of explanation for some o
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Elena
Mar 06, 2016 Elena rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
I don't care much for philosophy, but Nietzsche was such a dramatic lunatic that the graphic novel format suits him well. I will never get that image of him having sex out of my head, sadly. My favorite image was the one about eternal return which shows him walking through a dark forest. I also loved the jaunty cartoony images of him when he announced he was the antichrist and started making appointments with the king of italy. Thoroughly readable, and I happily read the whole thing.
Miguel
Mar 24, 2012 Miguel rated it really liked it
An engaging and comprehensive summary of Nietzsche's various thoughts organized primarily chronologically, but also establishing thematic links where necessary. The book effectively pairs the prose of Gane to paraphrase Nietzsche's ideas (which would likely satisfy Nietzsche himself) and quotes from Nietzsche. One of the most remarkable elements of this text are the illustrations which are spectacular and add a great deal of depth to this light analysis and re-articulation of Nietzsche's core as ...more
Leila Anani
A very useful overview of Nietzsche's life, times, contemporaries and most important of all, philosophies.

Illustrated with crude art and actual quotations this makes him almost easy! to understand.

If anything its a tad brief, but its a very good place to start.
Jordan J. Andlovec
Basically it's a illustrated guide to Nietzsche's life, ideas, and influence. The pictures are humorous, cryptic, and often crude, but gives a decent mode for conversation with the man.
Andrew Otway
May 03, 2016 Andrew Otway rated it liked it
These Icon 'graphic' style books have always been good for a quick suss on a subject. And that's what this one is. I have a morbid curiosity about Nietzsche; some of his ideas I agree with - others I disagree with. [To be continued... ]
Eric Pecile
Oct 13, 2015 Eric Pecile rated it it was amazing
Definitely one of Introducing's more thorough summaries of one of the key modern philosophers. If you have any difficulty with Nietzsche this is the go-to read along guide.
Yasin
May 04, 2016 Yasin rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Beatrix Tung
Aug 05, 2016 Beatrix Tung rated it it was ok
An uninteresting writing style and vague content made this a disappointing read.
Tamen Miller
For what it was going for, it was effective.
Victor Guerrero
Jan 03, 2015 Victor Guerrero rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
magnificent overview of his work

Even though one may feel a great ennui after reading this into, one would have just that much more passion to actually take a dip into his phenomenal poetic prose and philosophy!

Overall, this introduction provides a great skeletal framework of his greatest thoughts, only by reading his work can the rest of the body be truly fleshed out .
Craven
Jul 19, 2014 Craven rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
A great introduction/overview.
Adam
Aug 26, 2011 Adam rated it it was amazing
Shelves: philosophy
I expected this to be a kind of philosophical comic relief, but the amount and accuracy of the information was surprisingly good. Most of the book comprises short quotes by Nietzsche himself, and when the author paraphrases (a perilous endeavor), he avoids inference. Much of the work describes Nietzsche's life and development of thought. The illustrations, while sometimes amusing, primarily serve to illuminate the influences to Nietzsche's thinking, as well as the legacy of his writings.
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