The book Nietzsche called "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 untranslated letters, brings to life Nietzsche as a human being and illuminates his philosophy. The book contains some of Nietzsche's most sustained discussions of art and morality, knowledge and truth, the intellectual conscience and the origin of logic. Most of the book was written just before Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the last part five years later, after Beyond Good and Evil. We encounter Zarathustra in these pages as well as many of Nietzsche's most interesting philosophical ideas and the largest collection of his own poetry that he himself ever published. Walter Kaufmann's English versions of Nietzsche represent one of the major translation enterprises of our time. He is the first philosopher to have translated Nietzsche's major works, and never before has a single translator given us so much of Nietzsche.
Thomas Common Bücher
Thomas Common war ein Übersetzer und Kritiker, der sich der Einführung von Friedrich Nietzsches Werk in die englischsprachige Welt widmete. Seine Bemühungen zeichneten sich durch eine enthusiastische und tief anerkennende Auseinandersetzung mit Nietzsches Philosophie aus. Er bemühte sich, das öffentliche Interesse durch seine Übersetzungen und seine eigenen Analysen zu erweitern, einschließlich eines äußerst günstigen Buches, das von George Bernard Shaw empfohlen wurde. Durch seine engagierte Zeitschrift strebte Common danach, ein breiteres Verständnis und eine größere Wertschätzung von Nietzsches komplexen Ideen bei einem größeren Publikum zu fördern.
The most popular of Nietzsche's works. A symphony of language, it abounds in every kind of wordplay and an intricate network of leitmotifs. This dual-language edition features one third of Nietzsche's work, keeping the most famous concepts intact and encompassing a variety of moods and modes as well as the author's full linguistic scope.