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Title: Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Friedrich Nietzsche, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Judith Norman, Karl Ameriks, Desmond M. Clarke ISBN: 0-521-77913-8 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 22 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (50 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Vintage Nietzsche
Comment: This is one of the most potent and focused texts by the philosophical master. It is translated by one of the foremost Nietzsche scholars of all time, Walter Kaufman. The latter's notes are indispensable and quiet enlightening, oftentimes calling to the reader's attention other sections in Nietzsche's writing that relate to the current passage as well as outlining the shift in Nietzsche's thought in relation to the text in hand.
The inspiring and migraine-inducing joy of the text is its poetic tone which is sponsored by Kaufmann's familiarity with the thinker's intensions and knowledge of Nietzsche's writing stylistics. If such potency of language has sustained itself through translation. . . .
This text outlines, if it does not go into precise detail, the theories of Master and Slave moralities, the Ubermensch (free spirit), Christian nihilism, the Will to Power (survival instinct), and Perspectivism (Relativism).
The text leaves no stone unturned and avoids no touchy subject matter that other thinkers might have skirted around for fear of losing face. This is a complete philosophical inquiry from one of the few minds capable of such an endeavor.
Rating: 5
Summary: A delightful romp through the prejudices of philosophers
Comment: This book can be regarded as a sort of philosophical emetic. Nietzsche demolishes one philosophical prejudice after another, proving how baseless and cowardly most of the pieties of traditional philosophy, and especially those of German idealistic philosophy, really are. While here and there Nietzsche may go overboard, the number of insights that he offers, all couched in his prankish, brilliantly aphoristic style, more than compensates for the occassional lapse in good judgment. His inspired use of language is second to none among philosophers. Who else would think of describing Kant's philosophy as "stiff and decorous Tartuffery," or the cuasa sui as "the best self-contradiction that has been conceived so far, it is a sort of rape and perversion of logic." Or what about his penetrating comment about that free and "unfree" will? "The 'unfree will' is mythology," Nietzsche writes: "in real life it is only a matter of strong and weak wills." Isn't that the truth! Philosophy doesn't get much better than this. Highly recommended, but only to good readers, readers who can really think. Bad readers should stick with Plato, Hegel, Rand, Marcuse and other "cowards before the truth," as Nietzsche would describe them.
Rating: 4
Summary: Autobiography of a mind
Comment: Forget Nietzsche the philosopher. As he himself said, 'Before you ask what a philosopher thinks, find out what he wants' (or something to that effect), and, as Freud said, "He had a sharper understanding of himself than any man in recent history." You could blow holes in the logical validity of his arguments, but he has never been about logic; all of his texts are deeply personal, and show an outstandingly intelligent and sensitive man grappling with the same issues that plague most people. Although he often has a reputation as arrogant and self-centered, he was often more tenuous about his ideas than other philosophers, advancing an idea by a series of partly related statements, sometime changing his mind or pausing to restate his position in different terms. You can see his ideas evolving over the course of this book alone. There are also some solid and entertaining insights here, and the aphorisms are highly quotable, but I think its greatest value is as a glimpse into a human soul.
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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 Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche ISBN: 0394704371 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 August, 1968 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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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: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo by Walter Kaufmann, Friedrich Nietzsche ISBN: 0679724621 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 17 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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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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