The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner: Volume 9
The year 1888 marked the last year of Friedrich Nietzsche's intellectual career and the culmination of his philosophical development. In that final productive year, he worked on six books, all of which are now, for the first time, presented in English in a single volume. Together these new translations provide a fundamental and complete introduction to Nietzsche's mature thought and to the virtuosity and versatility of his most fully developed style.

The writings included here have a bold, sometimes radical tone that can be connected to Nietzsche's rising profile and growing confidence. In The Antichrist, we are offered an extended critique of Christianity and Christian morality alongside blunt diagnoses of contemporary Europe's cultural decadence. In Dionysus Dithyrambs we are presented with his only work composed exclusively of poetry, and in Twilight of the Idols we find a succinct summary of his mature philosophical views. At times the works are also openly personal, as in The Case of Wagner, which presents Nietzsche's attempt to settle accounts with his former close friend, German composer Richard Wagner, and in his provocative autobiography, Ecce Homo, which sees Nietzsche taking stock of his past and future while also reflecting on many of his earlier texts.

Scrupulously edited, this critical volume also includes commentary by esteemed Nietzsche scholar Andreas Urs Sommer. Through this new collection, students and scholars are given an essential introduction to Nietzsche's late thought.

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The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner: Volume 9
The year 1888 marked the last year of Friedrich Nietzsche's intellectual career and the culmination of his philosophical development. In that final productive year, he worked on six books, all of which are now, for the first time, presented in English in a single volume. Together these new translations provide a fundamental and complete introduction to Nietzsche's mature thought and to the virtuosity and versatility of his most fully developed style.

The writings included here have a bold, sometimes radical tone that can be connected to Nietzsche's rising profile and growing confidence. In The Antichrist, we are offered an extended critique of Christianity and Christian morality alongside blunt diagnoses of contemporary Europe's cultural decadence. In Dionysus Dithyrambs we are presented with his only work composed exclusively of poetry, and in Twilight of the Idols we find a succinct summary of his mature philosophical views. At times the works are also openly personal, as in The Case of Wagner, which presents Nietzsche's attempt to settle accounts with his former close friend, German composer Richard Wagner, and in his provocative autobiography, Ecce Homo, which sees Nietzsche taking stock of his past and future while also reflecting on many of his earlier texts.

Scrupulously edited, this critical volume also includes commentary by esteemed Nietzsche scholar Andreas Urs Sommer. Through this new collection, students and scholars are given an essential introduction to Nietzsche's late thought.

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The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner: Volume 9

The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner: Volume 9

The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner: Volume 9

The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner: Volume 9

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The year 1888 marked the last year of Friedrich Nietzsche's intellectual career and the culmination of his philosophical development. In that final productive year, he worked on six books, all of which are now, for the first time, presented in English in a single volume. Together these new translations provide a fundamental and complete introduction to Nietzsche's mature thought and to the virtuosity and versatility of his most fully developed style.

The writings included here have a bold, sometimes radical tone that can be connected to Nietzsche's rising profile and growing confidence. In The Antichrist, we are offered an extended critique of Christianity and Christian morality alongside blunt diagnoses of contemporary Europe's cultural decadence. In Dionysus Dithyrambs we are presented with his only work composed exclusively of poetry, and in Twilight of the Idols we find a succinct summary of his mature philosophical views. At times the works are also openly personal, as in The Case of Wagner, which presents Nietzsche's attempt to settle accounts with his former close friend, German composer Richard Wagner, and in his provocative autobiography, Ecce Homo, which sees Nietzsche taking stock of his past and future while also reflecting on many of his earlier texts.

Scrupulously edited, this critical volume also includes commentary by esteemed Nietzsche scholar Andreas Urs Sommer. Through this new collection, students and scholars are given an essential introduction to Nietzsche's late thought.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780804728829
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 01/26/2021
Series: The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche
Pages: 816
Product dimensions: 4.75(w) x 7.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Andreas Urs Sommer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg. Since 2008, he has been Director of the Friedrich-Nietzsche-Stiftung and has served as Director of the research center "Nietzsche-Kommentar" at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 2014.

Table of Contents

A Note On This Edition xi

A Note On This Translation xiii

The Case of Wagner A Musicians' Problem

Foreword 3

Letter from Turin of May 1888 5

Postscript 29

Second Postscript 34

Epilogue 37

Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophize with a Hammer

Foreword 43

Sayings and Arrows 45

The Problem of Socrates 51

"Reason" in Philosophy 57

How the "True World" Finally Became à Fable 62

Morality as Anti-Nature 64

The Four Great Errors 69

The "Improvers" of Humanity 77

What the Germans Lack 81

Forays of an Untimely One 88

What I Owe the Ancients 125

The Hammer Speaks 132

The Antichrist Curse upon Christianity

Foreword 134

The Antichrist 135

Law Against Christianity 208

Ecce Homo How One Becomes What One Is

Foreword 212

Contents 216

Why I Am So Wise 218

Why I Am So Clever 230

Why I Write Such Good Books 247

The Birth of Tragedy 256

The Unfashionables 262

Human, All Too Human 267

Dawn 273

The Joyful Science 276

Thus Spoke Zarathustra 278

Beyond Good and Evil 291

Genealogy of Morality 293

Twilight of the Idols 295

The Case of Wagner 298

Why I Am a Destiny 305

Dionysus Dithyrambs

Just a Fool! Just a Poet! 319

Among Daughters of the Desert 327

Last Will 341

Among Birds of Prey 343

The Beacon 351

The Sun Is Sinking 355

Ariadne's Lament 361

Fame and Eternity 369

On the Poverty of the Richest Man 377

Nietzsche Contra Wagner Documents of a Psychologist

Foreword 387

Where I Admire 388

Where I Object 389

Intermezzo 391

Wagner as Danger 392

A Music with No Future 393

We Antipodes 395

Where Wagner Belongs 397

Wagner as Apostle of Chastity 398

How I Freed Myself from Wagner 400

The Psychologist Has His Say 402

Epilogue 405

On the Poverty of the Richest Man 409

Reference Matter

Nietzsche's Unpublished Writings 1885-1888 and the "will to power" Mazzino Montinari 415

Notes 445

Afterword Giorgio Colli 651

Afterword Andreas Urs Sommer 661

Index Of Persons 717

Subject Index 741

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