The comprehensive index serves to guide the reader to the extraordinary riches of this book. His running footnote commentary offers information needed to follow Nietzsche's train of thought, and indicates, among other things, which notes were eventually superseded by later formulations. Professor Kaufmann has included an approximate date of each note. Holilngdale, brings to this volume his unsurpassed skills as a Nietzsche translator and scholar. (from Nietzsche’s On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense, tr. Walter Kaufmann, in collaboration with R. RT nicoscosc: To be truthful means using the customary metaphorsin moral terms: the obligation to lie according to a fixed convention, to lie herd-like in a style obligatory for all. In fact, it represents a stunning selection from Nietzsche's notebooks, in a a topical arrangement that enables the reader to find what Nietzsche's wroteon a variety of subjects. Here is the first critical edition in any language.ĭown through the Nazi period The Will to Power was often mistakenly considered to be Nietzche's crowning systematic labor since World War II it has frequently been denigrated. The Will to Power, compiled from the notebooks, is one of the most famous boooks of the philosophy. Nietzsche's notebooks, kept by him during his most productive years, offer a fascinating glimpse into the workshop and mind of a great thinker, and compare favorably with the notebooks of Gide and Kafka, Camus and Wittgenstein.

Represents a selection from Nietzche's notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others.

Nietzsche by Walter Kaufmann