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Title: Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Peter Gay, Walter Kaufmann, Friedrich Nietzsche, Peter Gay ISBN: 0-679-78339-3 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 28 November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Jenseits von Gut und Bose
Comment: This is very simply an extraordinary book. Some of Nietzsche's best writings are included in this book, all translated by Walter Kaufmann - Kaufmann being, of course, one of the greatest scholars of German literature (and Nietzsche in particular) of the twentieth century.
The translation seemed very good to me, and I've enjoyed Kaufmann's translations before - particularly his book "Goethe's Faust" is one of the best poetic translations I've ever read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Break glass and grab Nietzsche in case of emergency.
Comment: This collection of Nietzsche's writings are completely enjoyable, the life and muscle only brings grins to the face of those who dare to experience it. Especially good language in the translation is something to note.
Every book, or snippet in this chronicle of sorts is indispensable, but THE BOT is really a great place to embark. The way that all the books tackle/attack Christianity and problematic ideals of morality - and the traps that mankind finds itself within these self made pits - makes Nietzsche something of a superman even by todays standards.. but just think, he was doing this way back in the mid 1800s.
This is where everyone should start to learn and enjoy the wonderful writings of what could really be considered one of the last great philosophical thinkers... with only exception might be B. Russell.
Rating: 5
Summary: The meaning of Power
Comment: There is a common view that Nietzsche was an atheist. He certainly encourages this view, but as Walter Kaufmann says, he commonly attacked what he valued. There is no doubt that Nietzsche opposed the Jewish and Christian Gods. He said he opposed the Jewish religion because it gave rise, in his view, to Christianity. The view of Paul Tillich that he opposed the god who deprives the individual of subjectivity is beyond much doubt. Kaufmann puts it in terms of Nietzsche's struggle for creativity. He opposed the god which is identified with natural law and causality. To understand this opposition one must understand the God whom Tillich says Nietzsche says must be destroyed, which is natural law, spacial relationships and most of all the mechanistic nature of causality. To understand this one must visualize the balance, the principal characterisktic of God in the Old Testament of the Bible. To grasp this takes more than a little doing. It is hidden in texts. If, however, you try a little experiment, you will see the God whom Nietzsche thought had to be destroyed. Take a pencil and hold it at the center between your fingers and move one end up and the other down. Notice that if one end goes up the other goes down. This is IF and THEN; between them is the shaft of the pencil, which is AND. The movement of the pencil is a moving syllogism. It is the beginning of the infinity of causal relationships which Spinoza considers. It is also a lever, the fundamental machine, the basis of the mechanical nature of the universe. It is also the principal of economics; let yourself think of the balance for trade and you will see. Money on one side and goods on the other. If the fulcrum is in the center, the match is even; if the fulcrum is nearer one end, mechanical advantage and economic advantage can be seen and understood. It is also the principle of justice.
It is the breaking of the balance, the breaking of the visualized relationship between cause and effect which is the essence of Christianity. Nietzsche opposed Christianity not because it anulled visualizing the mechanical relationship between cause and effect, but rather because it re-invented the word "meek" to be what it means has been taken by Christianity to mean, as in "The meek whall enherit the earth" rather than the Old Testament meaning of "logical". Moses, the author of logic in the Bible was said to be the meekest man who ever lived. "Meek" meant subordinate to God, and God shows himself in the logic of the balance, so Moses was author of logic, not humility before other men and his people before other peoples. Nietzsche says "Fight! Do not work" and he means create from nothing, do not move around things already created. "I love that which creates something greater than itself and dies," says Nietzsche. The human mind independent of the rule that governs the universe and not timid before others--this is what Nietzsche meens by "The Will to Power" It is also what Nietzsche means by "God is dead." As Kaufmann points out, it is more than the Protestant "invention" of the individual, it is the knowing self, aware of the governing power of the universe, refusing to be timid before other men whom Nietzsche calls the "Ubermench" or Superman.
The "Ubermench" KNOWS, but he IMAGINES and CREATES,he acts knowing that the LAW of the universe will destroy him. The "Ubermench" is not an ignorant man not seeing the order of the universe who acts at his great risk nonetheless like those where "Ignorant armies clash by night." Nietzsche knows that pain will follow. He accepts that. He knows that that the mockery of the crowd will come, but he is willing to suffer that. If this interests you, see my review of Paul Tillich's "Courage to Be".
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Title: Portable Nietzsche by Walter Kaufmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ISBN: 0140150625 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 1977 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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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: Basic Writings of Kant by Allen W. Wood, Immanuel Kant ISBN: 0375757333 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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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 Essential Kierkegaard by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong, Soren Kierkegaard ISBN: 0691019401 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 30 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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