Friedrich Nietzsche: 672 books

In late 1888, a few weeks before his descent into madness, Friedrich Nietzsche set out to compose his life story. *Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is *remains one of the most remarkable autobiographies ever written, a powerful work of genius in which the German philosopher critiques his own...

Friedrich Nietzsche’s trailblazing, incendiary book sets dogmatic philosophy and traditional morality alight One of the most important works in philosophical history, Beyond Good and Evil consists of 296 sections and a final “aftersong.” Therein, Nietzsche articulates his views on philosophy,...

L'Origine de la Tragédie (Die Geburt der Tragödie) est une œuvre du philosophe allemand Friedrich Nietzsche, qu’il publia en 1872 à l’âge de 28 ans. La première traduction française de cet ouvrage: "L’Origine de la Tragédie dans la musique ou Hellénisme et Pessimisme" traduit...

Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God—to which a large part of the book is devoted—and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence. Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with its many quotations from previously...

Le Gai Savoir est un ouvrage de Friedrich Nietzsche, publié en 1882, sous le titre original Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, la* gaya scienza.* Le titre fait référence aux troubadours, l’expression* Gai Saber de laquelle dérive la gaya scienza* étant une façon de dénommer en occitan l’art...

Among the most influential philosophers of modern times, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) declared in this classic study that Greek tragedy achieved greatness through a fusion of elements of Apollonian restraint and control with Dionysian components of passion and the irrational. In Nietzsche's eyes,...

`What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.'Always provocative, the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist and philosopher-seer, passionately unmasking European society with his piercing insights and uncanny prescience. This masterpiece...

The Antichrist (German: Der Antichrist) is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1895. Although it was written in 1888, its controversial content made Franz Overbeck and Heinrich Köselitz delay its publication, along with Ecce Homo. The German title can be translated into English as both "The Anti-Christ" and "The Anti-Christian".

Edition enrichie (introduction, notes, chronologie et bibliographie) Le problème de la valeur du vrai s'est présenté à nous, - ou bien est-ce nous qui nous sommes présentés à ce problème ? Qui de nous ici est Oedipe ? Qui la Sphinx ? C'est, comme il semble, un véritable rendez-vous...

Edition enrichie (Introduction, notes, index et bibliographie) Humain, trop humain, avec ses deux continuations, est le monument commémoratif d'une crise. Je l'ai intitulé : un livre pour les esprits libres, et presque chacune de ses phrases exprime une victoire ; en l'écrivant, je me suis...

Dès les années 1880, Friedrich Nietzsche projette un ouvrage qui exposerait sa philosophie, mais il l'abandonne en 1888. Juste après sa mort, sa sœur Élisabeth établit le texte à partir de fragments, selon le plan laissé par l’auteur en mars 1887 : ainsi est publié La Volonté de puissance....

The will to power (German: der Wille zur Macht) is a prominent concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. The will to power describes what Nietzsche may have believed to be the main driving force in humans: achievement, ambition, the striving to reach the highest possible position in life; these are all manifestations of the will to power.

Never one to back away from controversy, Friedrich Nietzsche assails the Christian Church in Twilight of the Idols.  In this classic work, he sets out to substitute the morality of the Catholic and the Protestant Churches with that of Dionysian morality.  Twilight of the Idols furthermore lays the foundation for key arguments that Nietzsche more fully develops in later writings.

AN NYRB Classics Original In 1869, at the age of twenty-four, the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical philology at the University of Basel. He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career. Then the philosophy of Schopenhauer...