The Portable Nietzsche

514 Pages·1977·2.1 MB·English

by  Walter Kaufmann

Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Bibliography

THE PORTABLE - NIETZSCHE
THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA A BOOK FOR ALL AND NONE

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: First Part
Zarathustra’s Prologue
Zarathustra’s Speeches

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Second Part

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Third Part

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Fourth and Last Part
NOTE (1884)
LETTERS
NOTES
FROM A DRAFT FOR A PREFACE
FROM Beyond Good and Evil
FROM The Gay Science: Book V
FROM Toward a Genealogy of Morals
LETTER TO OVERBECK
NOTES (1887)
LETTER TO HIS SISTER
NOTES (1888)
FROM The Wagner Case
TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS - OR, HOW ONE PHILOSOPHIZES WITH A
HAMMER
THE ANTICHRIST
FROM Ecce Homo - HOW ONE BECOMES WHAT ONE IS
NIETZSCHE CONTRA WAGNER - OUT OF THE FILES OF A
PSYCHOLOGIST
LETTERS (1889)

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THE VIKING PORTABLE LIBRARY
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche was born near Leipzig in 1844, the son of a Lutheran
clergyman. He attended the famous Pforta School, then went to university at
Bonn and at Leipzig, where he studied philology and read Schopenhauer. When
he was only 24 he was appointed to the chair of classical philology at Basle
University; he stayed there until his health forced him into retirement in 1897.
While at Basle he made and broke his friendship with Wagner, participated as an
ambulance orderly in the Franco-Prussian War, and published The Birth of
Tragedy (1872), Untimely Meditations (1873–6), and the first two parts of
Human, All Too Human (1878–9). From 1880 until his final collapse in 1889,
except for brief interludes, he divorced himself from everyday life and,
supported by his university pension, he lived mainly in France, Italy, and
Switzerland. The third part of Human, All Too Human appeared in 1880,
followed by The Dawn in 1881. Thus Spoke Zarathustra was written between
1883 and 1885, and his last completed books were Ecce Homo, an
autobiography, and Nietzsche contra Wagner. He became insane in 1889 and
remained in a condition of mental and physical paralysis until his death in 1900.

Walter Kaufmann was Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, where
he taught after receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1947 until his death in 1980.
He held visiting appointments at many American and foreign universities,
including Columbia, Cornell, Heidelberg, Jerusalem, and the Australian National
University; and his books have been translated into Dutch, German, Italian,
Japanese, and Spanish.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
The portable Nietzsche.
Reprint of the 1954 ed. published by The Viking Press, New York,
which was issued as no. 62 of Viking portable library.
Bibliography. p. 688.
1. Philosophy—Collected works. I. Title.
[B3312.E52K3 1976] 193 76-47577
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