The Nietzsche Reader

This collection brings together in one volume substantial selections from Nietzsche's writings, encompassing youthful essays not hitherto published in book form in English, and published work from all the main periods of Nietzsche's productive life. The volume has been designed for pedagogic purposes and features editorial sections on Nietzsche's life and importance, an opening introduction to his philosophical ideas, introductions to each major section, and a comprehensive guide to further reading.

Keith Ansell Pearson holds a Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He co-founded the Friedrich Nietzsche Society and is renowned for his work on Nietzsche, Bergson, and Deleuze. He recently edited A Companion to Nietzsche (Blackwell, 2005).

Duncan Large is Senior Lecturer in German at University of Wales Swansea and former Chairman of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society. He is author of Nietzsche and Proust: A Comparative Study (2001), and translator and editor of both Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols (1998) and Sarah Kofman’s Nietzsche and Metaphor (1993).

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Abbreviations	p. xvii
General Introduction	p. xviii
A Chronology of Friedrich Nietzsche	p. xli
Beginnings	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Fate and History: Thoughts (1862)	p. 12
Freedom of Will and Fate (1862)	p. 16
My Life (1863)	p. 18
On Moods (1864)	p. 21
On Schopenhauer (1868)	p. 24
Early Writings	p. 31
Introduction	p. 33
The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music (1872)	p. 42
The Greek State (1871-2)	p. 88
Homer's Contest (1872)	p. 95
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (1873)	p. 101
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (1873)	p. 114
On the Utility and Liability of History for Life (1874)	p. 124
Schopenhauer as Educator (1874)	p. 142
The Middle Period	p. 151
Introduction	p. 153
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, volume 1 (1878)	p. 161
Of First and Last Things	p. 161
On the History of Moral Feelings	p. 170
From the Soul of Artists and Writers	p. 179
Signs of Higher and Lower Culture	p. 180
A Look at the State	p. 183
Man Alone with Himself	p. 187
Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881)	p. 191
Book I	p. 191
Book II	p. 196
Book III	p. 201
Book V	p. 205
The Gay Science (1882)	p. 207
Book I	p. 207
Book II	p. 212
Book III	p. 219
Book IV	p. 226
Notes from 1881	p. 238
Thus Spoke Zarathustra	p. 243
Introduction	p. 245
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One (1883-5)	p. 254
Zarathustra's Prologue	p. 254
Zarathustra's Discourses	p. 263
Of the Three Metamorphoses	p. 263
Of the Despisers of the Body	p. 264
Of the Thousand and One Goals	p. 265
Of the Bestowing Virtue	p. 267
Of Self-Overcoming	p. 270
Of Immaculate Perception	p. 272
Of Redemption	p. 274
Of the Vision and the Riddle	p. 277
Of the Spirit of Gravity	p. 280
The Convalescent	p. 282
The Sleepwalker's Song	p. 286
The Sign	p. 291
The Later Writings	p. 293
1886-1887	p. 295
Introduction	p. 297
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1886)	p. 311
Preface	p. 311
On the Prejudices of Philosophers	p. 312
The Free Spirit	p. 324
The Religious Disposition	p. 332
Epigrams and Interludes	p. 336
Towards a Natural History of Morals	p. 339
We Scholars	p. 344
Our Virtues	p. 347
Peoples and Fatherlands	p. 350
What Is Noble?	p. 354
The Gay Science, Book V (1887)	p. 362
European Nihilism (1887)	p. 385
On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic (1887)	p. 390
Preface	p. 390
"Good and Evil," "Good and Bad"	p. 395
"Guilt," "Bad Conscience," and Related Matters	p. 408
What Do Ascetic Ideals Mean?	p. 424
1888-1889	p. 437
Introduction	p. 439
The Case of Wagner: A Musicians' Problem (1888)	p. 451
Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer (1888)	p. 456
Maxims and Barbs	p. 456
The Problem of Socrates	p. 458
"Reason" in Philosophy	p. 462
How the "Real World" Finally Became a Fable	p. 464
Morality as Anti-Nature	p. 465
The Four Great Errors	p. 468
The "Improvers" of Humanity	p. 473
Reconnaissance Raids of an Untimely Man	p. 473
What I Owe the Ancients	p. 483
The Anti-Christ: Curse on Christianity (1888)	p. 486
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (1888)	p. 500
Foreword	p. 500
Why I Am So Wise	p. 502
Why I Am So Clever	p. 506
Why I Write Such Good Books	p. 509
Why I Am a Destiny	p. 514
Four Letters (1888-9)	p. 517
To Georg Brandes, April 10, 1888	p. 517
To Karl Knortz, June 21, 1888	p. 519
To Franz Overbeck, October 18, 1888	p. 520
To Jacob Burckhardt, January 6, 1889	p. 521
A Guide to Further Reading	p. 525
Index	p. 545
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