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Title: Beyond Good and Evil (Great Books in Philosophy) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Helen Zimmern ISBN: 0-87975-558-X Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: November, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: FORGET KAUFMAN
Comment: All I can say is, whoever said to go with Kaufman does not understand Nietzsche. Kaufman has dedicated a professional life to distorting N. in subtle and pernicious ways. He takes a fire breathing dragon and translates him into a bunny rabbit.
Rating: 4
Summary: A very frustrating read
Comment: Beyond Good and Evil from the start is a book concerning moral philosophy. The title leads the prospective reader to believe that Nietzsche is dealing essentially with ethical issues, but the scope of the text is much broader, encompassing reflections on religion, and current affairs.
Beyond Good and Evil opens with a section on the 'Prejudices of Philosophers', in this he under takes a critique of the philosophical traditions. Unlike previous philosophers, Nietzsche does not select an issue or notion and analyze it, in the process distinguishing his views from those of the previous writers and erecting a body of concepts that form a system of thought. Instead he calls into question the very basis of philosophizing. His targets are philosophers themselves. He claims that philosophers merely pose as persons seeking the truth.
Nietzsche considers religion as 'neurosis', it involves an unnatural self-denial and sacrifice. He is not unaware of the advantages that religion brought to human society, even as it has debases human nature. He believes it has helped create a variable social order. By demanding we love each other. However his attitude towards religion is that it represents a stage in human development that must be over come.
Beyond Good and Evil is not an easy task to read. I admit that there are parts of this I I had trouble understanding and often it was a frustrating read.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Kaufmann translation is better
Comment: While Beyond Good and Evil is probably the quintessial Nitzschean piece, I would have to say Zimmern's translation lags behind Kaufmann's. Although her use of quaint Elizabethan English is charming, and her edition has a beautifully personal touch to it (Zimmern was Nietzsche's dinner companion and erstwhile friend), the mistakes in her translation, while subtle, detract from it, especially when precision of language is so important for reading this book. Go with Kaufmann.
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Title: The Antichrist (Great Books in Philosophy) by Anthony M. Ludovici, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ISBN: 1573928321 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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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 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Martin Edward Malia ISBN: 0451527100 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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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: Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophize With a Hammer (Oxford World's Classics) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Duncan Large ISBN: 0192831380 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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