The Portable Nietzsche
Includes the complete This Spake Tharathrusta, Anti-Christ,Wagner letters and more.
A Nietzsche Reader (Penguin Classics)

The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the death of God in “The Gay Science” (1882) and went on to challenge the Christian code of morality in “Beyond Good and Evil” (1886), grappled with the fundamental issues of the human condition in his own intense autobiography, “Ecce Homo” (1888). Most notorious of all, perhaps, his idea of the triumphantly transgressive ubermann (‘superman’) is developed in the extreme, yet poetic words of “Thus Spake Zarathustra” (1883-92). Whether addressing conventional Western philosophy or breaking new ground, Nietzsche vastly extended the boundaries of nineteenth-century thought.
The Portable Nietzsche (Portable Library)

The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world’s leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, “Few writers in any age were so full of ideas”, and few writers have been so consistently misinterpreted. “The Portable Nietzsche” includes Kaufmann’s definitive translations of the complete and unabridged texts of Nietzsche’s four major works: “Twilight of the Idols”, “The Antichrist”, “Nietzsche Contra Wagner” and “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”. In addition, Kaufmann brings together selections from his other books, notes, and letters, to give a full picture of Nietzsche’s development, versatility, and inexhaustibility. “In this volume, one may very conveniently have a rich review of one of the most sensitive, passionate, and misunderstood writers in Western, or any, literature”. (“Newsweek”).



