Human, all too human
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-19001994
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Written after Nietzsche had ended his friendship with Richard Wagner and had been forced to leave academic life through ill health, this book can be read as a monument to his personal crisis. Written after Nietzsche had ended his friendship with Richard Wagner and had been forced to leave academic life through ill health, Human, All Too Human (1878) can be read as a monument to his personal crisis. It also marks the point when he matured as a philosopher, rejecting the German romanticism espoused by Wagner and Schopenhauer and instead returning to sources in the French Enlightenment. Here he sets out his unsettling views in a series of 638 stunning aphorisms - assessing subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity and women to youth. This work also contains the seeds of concepts crucial to Nietzsche's later philosophy, such as the will to power and the need to transcend conventional Christian morality. The result is one of the cornerstones of his life's work.
Main title:
Human, all too human / Friedrich Nietzsche ; translated by Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann ; introduction and notes by Marion Faber.
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 1994, c1984.
Collation:
xxvii,275p. ; 20cm.
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Notes:
Originally published: Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, 1984.Includes index.Translated from the German.
Contents:
Of first and last things; on the history of moral feelings; religious life; from the soul of artists and writers; signs of higher and lower culture; man in society; woman and child; a look at the state; man alone with himself.
ISBN:
9780140446173 (pbk)
Dewey class:
193
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
3074766