Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche; Introduction by Peter Gay; Translated by Walter Kaufmann
	List Price:   $18.00 Unit Price:   $14.40 You Save:   $3.60 (20%) ISBN-10:   0679783393 ISBN-13:   9780679783398 Publisher:   Random House [MD]; Modern Library Series:   Modern Library Classics Ser. Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   November 2000 Pages:   880 Format:   Paperback
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2005  Quill Awards  Nominee/Honoree  2005  School Library Journal Best Books of the Year  Winner!  2005  New York Times Notable Books of the Year  Winner!  2006  California Book Awards  Nominee/Honoree  2007  Great Lakes Book Awards  Winner!
Subjects
EXISTENTIALISM PHILOSOPHY, GERMAN
Description/Notes
This volume offers Nietzsche's five central works. Peter Gay is Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University and the director of the Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library. His works include The Enlightenment and, most recently, Mozart (Penguin Lives). Five central works by the most important and readable philosopher of modern times. Translated by Walter kaufmann, with a fresh introduction by Peter Gay. One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner; and Ecce Homo. Edited and translated by the great Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, this volume provides a definitive guide to the full range of Nietzsche's thought. Included also are seventy-five aphorisms, selections from Nietzsche's correspondence, and variants from drafts for Ecce Homo. From the Trade Paperback edition. 'Nietzsche is one of the few philosophers since Plato whom large numbers of intelligent people read for pleasure.' --Walter Kaufmann From the Trade Paperback edition.