The Nietzsche Reader - Rilegato

Large, Duncan; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

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ISBN 10: 0631226532 ISBN 13: 9780631226536

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2005

Riassunto

The Nietzsche Reader brings together in one volume substantial selections from the entire body of Nietzsche’s writings, together with illuminating commentary on Nietzsche’s life and importance, and introductions to his major works and philosophical ideas.

· Includes selections from all the major texts, including The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Anti-Christ, and Ecce Homo

· Offers new translations of key pieces from Nietzsche’s unpublished “Lenzer Heide” notebook

· Provides a wealth of pedagogical features, such as editorial sections on Nietzsche’s life and importance, an opening introduction to his philosophical ideas, introductions to each major section, and a comprehensive guide to further reading

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Recensione

"Intended to introduce students to Nietzsche s writings, the Reader is of considerable value. It includes comprehensiveselections from Nietzsche s early, middle and late writingsin English. The chronological presentation of the selections isparticularly useful in helping students to appreciateNietzsche s philosophical development." InternationalJournal of Philosophical Studies

The Nietzsche Reader offers an extremelycomprehensive collection of Nietzsche s philosophicalwritings, ranging from his youthful essays on fate to the pithy,epochal books written in the twilight of his sanity. Perfect forclassroom use, in any number of courses across a variety ofacademic disciplines. Daniel W. Conway, The PennsylvaniaState University

Thorough yet manageable, this Reader is an excellentintroduction to Nietzsche. The editors balanced commentaryis accessible to the novice while still engaging for scholars. Thisbook is a great contribution to Nietzsche studies. Kathleen Higgins, University of Texas Austin

L'autore

Keith Ansell Pearson holds a Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He co-founded the Friedrich Nietzsche Society and is renowned for his work on Nietzsche, Bergson, and Deleuze. He recently edited A Companion to Nietzsche (Blackwell, 2005).

Duncan Large is Senior Lecturer in German at University of Wales Swansea and former Chairman of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society. He is author of Nietzsche and Proust: A Comparative Study (2001), and translator and editor of both Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols (1998) and Sarah Kofman’s Nietzsche and Metaphor (1993).

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• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0631226532
• ISBN 13: 9780631226536
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 573
• Redattore: Ansell-Pearson Keith