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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

Author of Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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About the Author

The son of a Lutheran pastor, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born in 1844 in Roecken, Prussia, and studied classical philology at the Universities of Bonn and Leipzig. While at Leipzig he read the works of Schopenhauer, which greatly impressed him. He also became a disciple of the composer Richard show more Wagner. At the very early age of 25, Nietzsche was appointed professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland. In 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, Nietzsche served in the medical corps of the Prussian army. While treating soldiers he contracted diphtheria and dysentery; he was never physically healthy afterward. Nietzsche's first book, The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music (1872), was a radical reinterpretation of Greek art and culture from a Schopenhaurian and Wagnerian standpoint. By 1874 Nietzsche had to retire from his university post for reasons of health. He was diagnosed at this time with a serious nervous disorder. He lived the next 15 years on his small university pension, dividing his time between Italy and Switzerland and writing constantly. He is best known for the works he produced after 1880, especially The Gay Science (1882), Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-85), Beyond Good and Evil (1886), On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), The Antichrist (1888), and Twilight of the Idols (1888). In January 1889, Nietzsche suffered a sudden mental collapse; he lived the last 10 years of his life in a condition of insanity. After his death, his sister published many of his papers under the title The Will to Power. Nietzsche was a radical questioner who often wrote polemically with deliberate obscurity, intending to perplex, shock, and offend his readers. He attacked the entire metaphysical tradition in Western philosophy, especially Christianity and Christian morality, which he thought had reached its final and most decadent form in modern scientific humanism, with its ideals of liberalism and democracy. It has become increasingly clear that his writings are among the deepest and most prescient sources we have for acquiring a philosophical understanding of the roots of 20th-century culture. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885) 13,280 copies
The Portable Nietzsche (1954) 3,369 copies
The Gay Science (1882) 3,245 copies
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) 3,062 copies
The Birth of Tragedy (1872) 2,457 copies
The Antichrist (1888) 2,403 copies
Basic Writings of Nietzsche (1872) 2,373 copies
The Will to Power (1901) 1,978 copies
Untimely Meditations (1967) 843 copies
Why I Am So Wise (2004) 773 copies
A Nietzsche Reader (1977) 742 copies
Aphorisms On Love and Hate (1800) 260 copies
Man Alone with Himself (2008) 120 copies
The Wanderer and His Shadow (1983) 110 copies
Humain, trop humain, tome 1 (1878) 104 copies
Zarathustra's Discourses (1996) 102 copies
Schopenhauer As Educator (1874) 97 copies
My Sister and I (1951) 95 copies
Dionysos-Dithyramben (1888) 88 copies
Gedichte (1964) 82 copies
The Case of Wagner (1973) 70 copies
Aforismos (1901) 61 copies
Friedrich Nietzsche (2005) 59 copies
Ecce Homo / Antichrist (1990) — Author — 56 copies
Hammer of the Gods (1995) 55 copies
Oeuvres (1993) 54 copies
Nietzsche contra Wagner (1994) 51 copies
The Case of Wagner / Nietzsche Contra Wagner (1888) — Author — 48 copies
Le livre du philosophe (1969) — Author — 30 copies
Nietzsche Unpublished Letters (1959) — Author — 25 copies
We Philologists (2006) 25 copies
Umano, troppo umano vol. 1 (1979) 25 copies
El anticristo--Cómo se filosofa a martillazos (1977) — Author — 24 copies
Umano, troppo umano vol. 2 (1981) 24 copies
Waarheid en cultuur (1983) 23 copies
Der Antichrist Ecce Homo Dionysos Dithyr (1978) — Author — 22 copies
Os Pensadores: Nietzsche (1996) 21 copies
Scritti su Wagner (1979) 20 copies
The Living Thoughts of Nietzsche (1939) — Author — 19 copies
Werke, 3 Bde. (1952) 18 copies
Das Hauptwerk: 4 Bände (1999) 16 copies
Nietzsche-Brevier (1987) 16 copies
The Essential Nietzsche (2006) 16 copies
Gesammelte Werke (1994) 16 copies
Prefaces To Unwritten Works (2005) 15 copies
Uit mijn leven (1982) 14 copies
Nietzsche zum Vergnügen (2000) 13 copies
Nietzsche's Werke (2010) 13 copies
Ecce Homo / The Birth of Tragedy (1927) — Author — 12 copies
Lettere da Torino (2008) 12 copies
Nagelaten fragmenten (2001) 11 copies
El libro del filósofo (2013) 11 copies
Opere 1870-1881 (1996) 11 copies
Lettres choisies (2008) 11 copies
Obras Selectas (2013) 11 copies
Nietzsche (1967) 11 copies
Uber Die Frauen (1992) 10 copies
Werke II (1976) 10 copies
Opere 1882/1895 (1996) 9 copies
Greek Music Drama (2013) 9 copies
Insanca, Pek Insanca - 1 (2012) 9 copies
Fragments et aphorismes (2003) 8 copies
Ideas fuertes (1999) 8 copies
The Gist of Nietzche. (1910) 8 copies
Werke IV (1991) 8 copies
Werke: 6 Bde. (1983) 7 copies
Premiers écrits (1994) 7 copies
Escritos Sobre História (1900) 7 copies
AURORA - EL ANTICRISTO (2000) 7 copies
Selected Writings (2005) 7 copies
Nietzsche für Boshafte (2007) 7 copies
Escritos sobre retórica (2000) 7 copies
Slučaj Wagner (2012) 6 copies
Escritos sobre Wagner (2003) 6 copies
Werke 6 copies
Duševní aristokratismus (1993) 6 copies
El Espíritu Libre (2001) 5 copies
Fragmentos finais (2007) 5 copies
Studienausgabe. Bd. 4 (1956) 5 copies
Gedichte (2010) 5 copies
Nietzsche (1987) 5 copies
Formel meines Glücks (2001) 5 copies
Dernières lettres (1992) 5 copies
Nietzsche für Freunde (2000) 4 copies
Correspondencia (1989) 4 copies
Poza dobrem i zlem (2015) 4 copies
Thoughts out of season (2015) 3 copies
Studienausgabe. Bd. 3 (1956) 3 copies
Escritos de juventud (2016) 3 copies
La lucha de Homero (2004) 3 copies
Notatki z lat 1882-1884 (2019) 3 copies
Niewczesne rozwazania (1996) 3 copies
Escritos sobre direito (2014) 3 copies
Briefe (German Edition) (1976) 3 copies
Gedichte Feldauswahl (1925) 3 copies
Maximes et Pensées (1961) 3 copies
Hybride Kulturen (2006) 3 copies
Arbeitsheft W I 8 (2012) 2 copies
O Crepúsculo dos Ídolos (2000) 2 copies
El estado griego (2004) 2 copies
Werke in vier Bänden (1985) 2 copies
Ecce homo-NED (2022) 2 copies
Guc Istenci (2010) 2 copies
La gaya ciencia — Author — 2 copies
La muerte de Dios (2004) 2 copies
Las flores del mal (2018) 2 copies
Tarih Üzerine 2 copies
Alemania (1984) — Contributor — 2 copies
Antología (1981) 2 copies
Escritos Sobre Psicologia (2010) 2 copies
Vi frygtløse 2 copies
La Mujer Griega (2004) 2 copies
Poemas De Nietzsche (2022) 2 copies
Insanca Pek Insanca (2015) 2 copies
Obras de madurez I (2014) 2 copies
Rhétorique et langage (2008) 2 copies
Da Retórica 2 copies
Nietzsche - a nőkről (2006) 2 copies
Das Hauptwerk I 2 copies
Werke. Bd. 1 2 copies
OS PESADORES II 2 copies
Pisma pozostale (2009) 2 copies
Carteggio (2003) 2 copies
Gedichte und Sprüche, (1921) 2 copies
Opere: 1870-1895 (1993) 2 copies
Vie et verite (1992) 2 copies
Plato amicus sed (1991) 2 copies
Listy (2008) 2 copies
Notatki z lat 1885-1887 (2012) 2 copies
Hundert Gedichte (2006) 2 copies
L'amore egoista (2010) 2 copies
Notatki z lat 1887-1889 (2012) 2 copies
Poesie (Italian Edition) (2019) 2 copies
Langsame Curen (2002) 2 copies
Intempestive 2 copies
Intorno a Leopardi (1999) 2 copies
Aforisme 1 copy
Penseur intempestif (2008) 1 copy
La mia vita 1 copy
Pesni Zaratustry (2017) 1 copy
Αυγή (1999) 1 copy
Poesie (2005) 1 copy
Opere 1 copy
of morals 1 copy
Andkristur 1 copy
Contra la educación (2023) 1 copy
Inventario 1 copy
Rinktiniai raštai (1991) 1 copy
Werke 1 copy
Ecco Homo (2003) 1 copy
尼采生存哲学 (2012) 1 copy
Secilmis Mektuplar (2012) 1 copy
Estudios sobre Grecia (1968) 1 copy
Lettres (1995) 1 copy
Epigrammes 1 copy
Le cas Homère (2017) 1 copy
Visdom 1 copy
Prologue de Zoroastre (2000) 1 copy
Nietzsche (1954) 1 copy
Nesmrtelné myšlenky (1999) 1 copy
Werke Band 2 1 copy
Werke Band 3 1 copy
Hymne à l'amitié (2019) 1 copy
Poemas 1 copy
Poèmes complets (2019) 1 copy
Studienausgabe. Bd. 1 (1968) 1 copy
Studienausgabe. Bd. 2 (1968) 1 copy
poesias 1871-1888 — Author — 1 copy
Die Unschuld Des Werdens — Author — 1 copy
Mort parce que bête (2000) 1 copy
O životě a umění (1995) 1 copy
Epistolario 1875-1879 (1995) 1 copy
De kaken van mijn tijd (1997) 1 copy
Pisma Salome 1 copy
Sammelsurium 1 copy
5: 1885-1889 (2011) 1 copy
Opere complete (1964) 1 copy
Ecrits posthumes (1975) 1 copy
Teognide di Megara (1985) 1 copy
Dizionario delle idee (1999) 1 copy
Nietzsche (1900) 1 copy
Breviár (1995) 1 copy
Friedrich Nietzsche (2003) 1 copy
Heraklit 1 copy
Domande radicali (1995) 1 copy
Máximas (1996) 1 copy
Werke. Bd. 2 1 copy
Cartas 1 copy
Werke Band 1 1 copy
Nietzschiana 1 copy
Nietzsche - Lesebuch. (1994) 1 copy

Associated Works

When Nietzsche Wept (1992) — Contributor — 2,332 copies
Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (1956) — Contributor — 2,076 copies
The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche (1960) — Contributor — 435 copies
Critical Theory Since Plato (1971) — Contributor, some editions — 398 copies
Dracula (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) (2002) — Contributor — 372 copies
Criticism: Major Statements (1964) — Contributor — 220 copies
Western Philosophy: An Anthology (1996) — Author, some editions — 184 copies
Atheism: A Reader (2000) — Contributor — 181 copies
Man and Spirit: The Speculative Philosophers (1947) — Contributor — 173 copies
Deutsche Gedichte (1956) — Contributor, some editions — 135 copies
God (Hackett Readings in Philosophy) (1996) — Contributor, some editions — 57 copies
Sophocles: A Collection of Critical Essays (1966) — Contributor — 41 copies
Philosophy now : an introductory reader (1972) — Contributor — 24 copies
German Essays on Music (1994) — Contributor — 18 copies
Son of Man: Great Writing About Jesus Christ (2002) — Contributor — 17 copies
Von Raben und Krähen (2021) — Contributor — 8 copies
Makers of the twentieth century: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud (1968) — some editions — 4 copies
Am Borne deutscher Dichtung (1927) — Contributor — 1 copy
Carmen (Opera di Roma 2013/2014) — Contributor — 1 copy
Natale raccontato da ... — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Legal name
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
Birthdate
1844-10-15
Date of death
1900-08-25
Burial location
Röcken Churchyard, Röcken, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Gender
male
Nationality
Prussia (birth)
Germany
Country (for map)
Germany
Birthplace
Röcken, Saxony, Prussia
Place of death
Weimar, Germany
Places of residence
Basel, Switzerland
Weimar, Germany
Röcken, Saxony, Prussia
Turin, Italy
Sils-Maria, Switzerland
Education
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany (Theology)
University of Leipzig (Philology)
Occupations
philosopher
teacher
writer
classical scholar
critic
philologist (show all 7)
poet
Relationships
Forster, Elizabeth (sister)
Wagner, Richard (friend)
Andreas-Salomé, Lou (friend)
Deussen, Paul (friend)
Zimmern, Helen (friend)
Overbeck, Franz (friend) (show all 8)
Köselitz, Heinrich ("Gast, Peter", "Gasti, Pietro") (friend)
Rée, Paul (friend)
Organizations
University of Basel
Short biography
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher, philologist and cultural critic who published intensively in the 1870s and 1880s. He is famous for uncompromising criticisms of traditional European morality and religion, as well as of conventional philosophical ideas and social and political pieties associated with modernity. Many of these criticisms rely on psychological diagnoses that expose false consciousness infecting people's received ideas; for that reason, he is often associated with a group of late modern thinkers (including Marx and Freud) who advanced a “hermeneutics of suspicion” against traditional values (see Foucault [1964] 1990, Ricoeur [1965] 1970, Leiter 2004). Nietzsche also used his psychological analyses to support original theories about the nature of the self and provocative proposals suggesting new values that he thought would promote cultural renewal and improve social and psychological life by comparison to life under the traditional values he criticized.

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There’s not much to be said about this book that hasn’t already been said by people a bit more well spoken than me. Took it chapter by chapter when I felt up to it, didn’t gain much insight as opposed to annoyance.
 
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