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Title: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo by Walter Kaufmann, Friedrich Nietzsche ISBN: 0-679-72462-1 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 17 December, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: tendentious, penetrating, and insightful.
Comment: Some say Nietzsche's biggest mistake was reducing everything into moral terms. I do not think this is the case. In fact, I find it more loutish to think logic can explain everything. Logic is only one of many approaches to knowledge. I say this because Nietzsche didn't write in traditional philosophical terms. He was one of the first great existentialists who looked at values for what they were; reflections of All Too Human needs, desires, wants, and the general human condition. This book stands as his best alongside "The Gay Science".
Rating: 4
Summary: Right translator, wrong edition
Comment: On The Geneology of Morals -- This work is clearest when read as a sequel to Beyond Good & Evil. I don't suggest starting here. The prose is more straightforward than BG&E, he is attemting polemic in essay form. Yet still, it is still a voice in your head, consipring with you, coaxing you toward understanding. Here, the prose style of BG&E becomes apparent.
Ecce Homo -- This would seem like a very pretentious work. It is not. He comes off almost modestly here. This too, clears the air of all that is rotten about what has been said about him. It is as if he had guessed what evil things would be said about him.
Especially if this is your first Nietzsche book, I suggest, instead of buying this, buying the Basic Writings of Nietzsche which contains these two books, as well as three others (Beyond Good & Evil, which is a better place to start anyway; The Birth of Tragedy, and The Case of Wagner), by the same translator, and which costs only a few dollars more now that it's out in paperback.
Rating: 4
Summary: Genealogy and the All-Too-Human Prophet
Comment: "On the Genealogy of Morals" is called "a polemic" by Nietzsche himself. He is not trying to hide his dislike for traditional values and his contempt for early Christians, whom he holds responsible for the rise of these values, is very evident. "Genealogy" besides being a polemic, influenced later developments on the ideas of guilt and bad conscience. Nietzsche clearly anticipates Freud (who was 12 years his junior) in explaining guilt as not something that comes from above as a punishment for wrongdoing, but as the aggressive impulse directed inward, against oneself.
"Ecce Homo" is Nietzsche's philosophical autobiography that attacks the unselfish ideal, metaphysical abstractions, and traditional views of morality. N. predict wars "the like of which have never been seen on earth," but this is probably not due to his as much to his seeing powers as to his recollection of the Book of Revelations. Nietzsche cannot get away from his Christian background and from the intellectual atmospher of 19th century Europe, try as he might. Purely as a writer, he is more talented than any major philosopher I know. He is also the first major philosopher to make serious investigations into subconscious motives and processes. But in retrospect, he overestimated the impact that the theory of evolution and the general process of secularization would have on Western societies. This led him to overestimate his historical importance as a prophet. In the end, he was a creative and insightful man who rose against standardization and blandness of his age, and againt unquestionable beliefs in traditional values, though as a prophet he has the usual shortcoming of being all-too-human.
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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: Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Peter Gay ISBN: 0393301583 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: July, 1989 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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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 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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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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