Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24, but resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and probably vascular dementia. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche died in 1900, after experiencing pneumonia and multiple strokes.Nietzsche's work spans philosophical polemics, poetry, cultural criticism, and fiction while displaying a fondness for aphorism and irony. Prominent elements of his philosophy include his radical critique of truth in favour of perspectivism; a genealogical critique of religion and Christian morality and a related theory of master–slave morality; the aesthetic affirmation of life in response to both the "death of God" and the profound crisis of nihilism; the notion of Apollonian and Dionysian forces; and a characterisation of the human subject as the expression of competing wills, collectively understood as the will to power. He also developed influential concepts such as the Übermensch and his doctrine of eternal return. In his later work, he became increasingly preoccupied with the creative powers of the individual to overcome cultural and moral mores in pursuit of new values and aesthetic health. His body of work touched a wide range of topics, including art, philology, history, music, religion, tragedy, culture, and science, and drew inspiration from Greek tragedy as well as figures such as Zoroaster, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Wagner, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.After his death, Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth became the curator and editor of his manuscripts. She edited his unpublished writings to fit her German ultranationalist ideology, often contradicting or obfuscating Nietzsche's stated opinions, which were explicitly opposed to antisemitism and nationalism. Through her published editions, Nietzsche's work became associated with fascism and Nazism. 20th-century scholars such as Walter Kaufmann, R.J. Hollingdale, and Georges Bataille defended Nietzsche against this interpretation, and corrected editions of his writings were soon made available. Nietzsche's thought enjoyed renewed popularity in the 1960s and his ideas have since had a profound impact on 20th- and early 21st-century thinkers across philosophy—especially in schools of continental philosophy such as existentialism, postmodernism, and post-structuralism—as well as art, literature, music, poetry, politics, and popular culture.
Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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The Birth of Tragedy and The Genealogy of Morals

The Birth of Tragedy and The Genealogy of Morals

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Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ

Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ

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The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

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On the Genealogy of Morals

On the Genealogy of Morals

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On the Genealogy of Morality

On the Genealogy of Morality

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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

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Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

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The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings

The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings

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Asi hablo Zaratustra

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Also sprach Zarathustra. Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen

Also sprach Zarathustra. Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen

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The Birth of Tragedy

The Birth of Tragedy

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Aphorisms on Love and Hate (Penguin Little Black Classics, #5)

Aphorisms on Love and Hate (Penguin Little Black Classics, #5)

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Why I Am so Clever

Why I Am so Clever

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El Viajero y su Sombra

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Más allá del bien y del mal

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Así habló Zaratustra

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God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. (Penguin Great Ideas)

God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. (Penguin Great Ideas)

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Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra (French Edition)

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Ecce Homo

Ecce Homo

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The Portable Nietzsche

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Humain, trop humain (French Edition)

Humain, trop humain (French Edition)

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El ocaso de los ídolos

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Así hablaba Zaratustra

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El Anticristo

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Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

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The Anti-Christ

The Anti-Christ

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Así hablo Zaratustra (Pensamiento ilustrado)

Así hablo Zaratustra (Pensamiento ilustrado)

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