Bøker av Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This work, part of the "German Library" series, contains a selection of philosophical writings by Nietzsche. This volume includes: "The Birth of Tragedy"; "Beyond Good and Evil"; "The Gay Science"; "Untimely Meditations"; and "Human, All Too Human".

In The Antichrist, Nietzsche delivers a sharp critique of Christianity, challenging its moral foundations and its influence on Western civilization. He argues that Christian values, particularly those of humility and meekness, have weakened human potential and strength. Instead, Nietzsche advocates for a revaluation of values that celebrates life, power, and individualism. This provocative work, filled with philosophical insights, remains one of Nietzsche's most controversial and influential writings.

Translation of: Jenseits von Gut und B'ose.

Die Geburt der Tragoedie (1872) is one of the most important philosophical texts of the modern period. Nietzsche traces the origins of Greek tragedy in the encounter between the Dionysian and the Apollonian, and suggests that the music of Richard Wagner has a power to overcome this dichotomy.

Views science as key to undercutting traditional metaphysics. This book is suitable for those who wish to understand the author's incisive critique of Western culture and values.

Offers the English translation of six unpublished theoretical studies (sometimes referred to as Nietzsche's "Philosopher's Book"). This book contains an introduction that provides the biographical and philological information necessary for understanding these often fragmentary texts.

A work of Nietzsche's later years, The Antichrist was written after Thus Spoke Zarathustra and shortly before the mental collapse that incapacitated him for the rest of his life. The work is both an unrestrained attack on Christianity and a further exposition of Nietzsche's will-to-power philosophy so dramatically presented in Zarathustra.Christianity, says Nietzsche, represents "everything weak, low, and botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism towards all the self-preservative instincts of strong life." By contrast, Nietzsche defines good as: "All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? -- All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? -- The feeling that power is increasing, that resistance has been overcome."In attempting to redefine the basis of Western values by demolishing the formative influence of the Judeo-Christian tradition, The Antichrist has proved to be highly controversial and continuously stimulating to later generations of philosophers.

Presents the author's major concepts - the master and slave moralities, a pervasive will to power, the heroic overman transcending good and evil, and an eternal recurrence of the same dynamic universe.