The Nietzsche Reader

616 Pages·2006·2.52 MB·English

by  Keith Ansell Pearson

The Nietzsche Reader
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The Nietzsche Reader
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Keith Ansell Pearson
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Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiv
Abbreviations xvii
General Introduction xviii
A Chronology of Friedrich Nietzsche xli
Part I Beginnings 1
Introduction 3
1 Fate and History: Thoughts (1862) 12
2 Freedom of Will and Fate (1862) 16
3 My Life (1863) 18
4 On Moods (1864) 21
5 On Schopenhauer (1868) 24
Part II Early Writings 31
Introduction 33
6 The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music (1872) 42
7 The Greek State (1871–2) 88
8 Homer’s Contest (1872) 95
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9 Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (1873) 101
10 On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (1873) 114
11 On the Utility and Liability of History for Life (1874) 124
12 Schopenhauer as Educator (1874) 142
Part III The Middle Period 151
Introduction 153
13 Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits,
volume 1 (1878) 161
Section 1: Of First and Last Things 161
Section 2: On the History of Moral Feelings 170
Section 4: From the Soul of Artists and Writers 179
Section 5: Signs of Higher and Lower Culture 180
Section 8: A Look at the State 183
Section 9: Man Alone with Himself 187
14 Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881) 191
Book I 191
Book II 196
Book III 201
Book V 205
15 The Gay Science (1882) 207
Book I 207
Book II 212
Book III 219
Book IV 226
16 Notes from 1881 238
Part IV Thus Spoke Zarathustra 243
Introduction 245
17 Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One
(1883–5) 254
Zarathustra’s Prologue 254
Zarathustra’s Discourses 263
contents vii
Part I: Of the Three Metamorphoses 263
Of the Despisers of the Body 264
Of the Thousand and One Goals 265
Of the Bestowing Virtue 267
Part II: Of Self-Overcoming 270
Of Immaculate Perception 272
Of Redemption 274
Part III: Of the Vision and the Riddle 277
Of the Spirit of Gravity 280
The Convalescent 282
Part IV: The Sleepwalker’s Song 286
The Sign 291
Part V The Later Writings 293
1886–1887 295
Introduction 297
18 Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of
the Future (1886) 311
Preface 311
Section 1: On the Prejudices of Philosophers 312
Section 2: The Free Spirit 324
Section 3: The Religious Disposition 332
Section 4: Epigrams and Interludes 336
Section 5: Towards a Natural History of Morals 339
Section 6: We Scholars 344
Section 7: Our Virtues 347
Section 8: Peoples and Fatherlands 350
Section 9: What Is Noble? 354
19 The Gay Science, Book V (1887) 362
20 European Nihilism (1887) 385
21 On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic (1887) 390
Preface 390
First Essay: “Good and Evil,” “Good and Bad” 395
Second Essay: “Guilt,” “Bad Conscience,” and Related Matters 408
Third Essay: What Do Ascetic Ideals Mean? 424
1888–1889 437
Introduction 439
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22 The Case of Wagner: A Musicians’ Problem (1888) 451
23 Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with
a Hammer (1888) 456
Maxims and Barbs 456
The Problem of Socrates 458
“Reason” in Philosophy 462
How the “Real World” Finally Became a Fable 464
Morality as Anti-Nature 465
The Four Great Errors 468
The “Improvers” of Humanity 473
Reconnaissance Raids of an Untimely Man 473
What I Owe the Ancients 483
24 The Anti-Christ: Curse on Christianity (1888) 486
25 Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (1888) 500
Foreword 500
Why I Am So Wise 502
Why I Am So Clever 506
Why I Write Such Good Books 509
Why I Am a Destiny 514
26 Four Letters (1888–9) 517
To Georg Brandes, April 10, 1888 517
To Karl Knortz, June 21, 1888 519
To Franz Overbeck, October 18, 1888 520
To Jacob Burckhardt, January 6, 1889 521
A Guide to Further Reading 525
Index 545
To the memory of R. J. Hollingdale (1930–2001)