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Title: The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche ISBN: 0-394-70437-1 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 August, 1968 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.95 (40 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A raw, passionate,superior interpretation of life.
Comment: The first thing to understand is that The Will to Power is not Nietzsche's magnum opus. It is a collection of his unpublished writings from the 1880's, collected by his sister and published under the title The Will to Power. I've studied Nietzsche for over two and half years now, extensively reading and comparing his works, specifically from The Gay Science on to The Will to Power. Those who say that this work presents ideas that contradict his published works are wrong. Nietzsche certainly does elaborate on certain concepts that are not introduced in detail in his published works. But this is to be expected. Being his notes, one can expect that these passages,aphorisms, quotes, and notes are rather unpolished and therefore lack the kind of sophisticated poetical style that characterizes his published work. However attempts to refute these notes as mere propaganda perpetuated by his sister is simply ludicrous. Certain concepts such as nihilism, breeding, the will to power, and the eternal recurrence are covered more. The writings do not usually go into great detail, and are often ambiguous, but this is what one should expect from one's notes. However you will not find ideas in this book that are really different from those in his published works. There have been two main errors that have been perpetuated upon this book. First, some take this as his magnum opus and therefore overlook his other writings, however others ignore this book and pass it off as propaganda that represented his sister's agenda. Most scholars of Nietzsche agree that this work is very important as long as one also reads his published works. From my studies,I have come to believe that this work merely represents ideas and passages that were not fully worked out, ideas that were still in process of being elaborated, and even ideas that were perhaps too extreme to put in his published writings. One must remember that Nietzsche was criticized over the extreme content of his published writings, and he probably knew that some of his material should be kept unpublished. However his most extreme ideas such as the glorification of war and conflict, his hypothesis of the will to power as the basic essence of life, his defense of aristocracy as a superior form of government, hatred of christianity and other institutions that preserve christian moral ideals,i.e.,democracy, socialism, his praise of master morality and the virtues associated with it..pride,domination,violence,cruelty,hardness,are all put forth in his published works as well, especially in Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, Ecce Homo, the Antichrist, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. So if you have enough intelligence to read all of his works and comparatively study them and look beyond the mere raw form of these passages, you will find many notes and aphorisms that elaborate on the detailed work already put forth in his published writings.
Rating: 5
Summary: I love this book......
Comment: I hardly know why I am writing a review for "The Will to Power." Anyone kicking around the house on a rainy Saturday afternoon, with nothing good on the television, looking for a good "read"--that person is not going to stumble across "Will to Power" and say "Huh. Well, Luke Gage, POWER MAN, was my favorite comic book. Maybe this'll be just a good. I'll give it a whirl..." If you're going to read this book, you've got to have some idea about Nietzsche, or philosophy, and want to tackle it.
Now--I can't comment on whether Nietzsche himself was an anti-semite, or intellectual father of German National Socialism, or if he was mean to his cats. I don't know, and really couldn't care. Nor am I delusional enough to say "This is what Nietzsche really was thinking when he said X." In fact, I couldn't care less that this "book" wasn't "written" by Nietzche, but instead was culled together and translated by Walter Kaufman, who tried to separate out some of the [...] manipulated by the loving (sic) sister. No, I love this book because of the ideas in it, just as they are written.
This book is not a ripping good yarn, like "Gone with the Wind." This book reads like Hegal's "Philosophy of Right," in that it posits an idea, then has several corollaries to that idea, and then several conclusions based on that idea, all following a process. To get this books flavor, run the "search inside" function on "Nihilism," and begin reading at page 5.
I'm good at underling parts of sentences, so I can quickly go back, skim only the underlined parts, and keep the continuity moving. That helped me stay focused, and build on each new part. So what--Nobody else is going to care what I do to my books.
"Will to Power" begins as a discussion of "nihilism" meaning that the highest values devaluate themselves; There is no answer to the question "Why?" From that initial statement, Nietsche goes on to point out the death of a "god" based or god inspired (or revealed) morality: blind faith in a god is no longer a satisfactory basis for moral authority, nor is the concept of a moral authority dictated by a secular government a sufficient replacement. As the basis for morality collapses, a person confronting this specture may become more "moral," or adhere more closely to the behavioral rules and aspects of a moral order that the person rejects.....
I love this stuff....I never get invited to parties (big surprise), so this is a great way to spend those rainy afternoons. And it's not just me. National Public Radio's "Philosophy Talk" featured a program on Nietsche. If that's not mainsteam america, I don't know what is.
So--if you're interested, get this book. And don't worry if you don't know anything about Nietsche, or are worried that you'll instantly hate your mother and your girlfriend (yourself, if you're a woman), you'll become an over night nazi, (...) None of that will happen (...)
Rating: 1
Summary: How to avoid superlatives?
Comment: Nietzceh doesn't represent everything thats wrong with the world today, but he's certianly viaing for the title.
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Title: Beyond Good & Evil : Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Walter Kaufmann, Friedrich Nietzsche ISBN: 0679724656 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 17 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche ISBN: 0486406636 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 16 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
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Title: The Anti-Christ by H. L. Mencken, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ISBN: 1884365205 Publisher: Independent Publishers Group Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Gay Science : With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs by Walter Kaufmann, Friedrich Nietzsche ISBN: 0394719859 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 January, 1974 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche ISBN: 0486285154 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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