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Could it be possible? This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead! - Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
This beautiful jacketed hardback brings together three of Friedrich Niezsche's most influential essays, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Ecce Homo and Beyond Good and Evil.
This German philosopher was one of the most prominent thinkers of the 19th century. His work contains a radical critique of objective truth, rejecting Christian...
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'The sight of suffering does one good, the infliction of suffering does one more good - this is a hard maxim, but none the less a fundamental maxim, old, powerful, and "human, all-too-human".'
In this daring and insightful work, Nietzsche lays bare the hypocrisies at the foundations of our ideas of morality. Considering ideas of good and evil, guilt and conscience, and law and violence along the way, On the Genealogy of Morals takes the reader on...
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Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher and classical philologist. He is seen as a shatterer of values and a herald of the new. In pictorial analogies, he described relationships between values and criticized them on a meta-level (meta-ethics). Nietzsche dedicates himself to a critique of language and knowledge as it has always preoccupied philosophers and whose questions and theories are topical again today. He uses the force of...
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Newly translated and edited by Taylor Carman, On Truth and Untruth charts Nietzsche's evolving thinking on truth, which has exerted a powerful influence over modern and contemporary thought. This original collection features the complete text of the celebrated early essay "On Truth and Lie in a Nonmoral Sense" ("a keystone in Nietzsche's thought" -Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy), as well as selections from the great philosopher's entire career,...
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Une édition de référence d'Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra de Frédéric Nietzsche, traduit par Henri Albert, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Il faut apprendre à s'aimer soi-même, d'un amour sain et bien portant : afin d'apprendre à se supporter soi-même et de ne point vagabonder – c'est ainsi que j'enseigne.
Un tel vagabondage s'est donné le nom « d'amour du prochain » : c'est par ce mot d'amour qu'on...
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Thus Spake Zarathustra Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (German: Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen, also translated as Thus Spake Zarathustra) is a philosophical novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885 and published between 1883 and 1891. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the "eternal recurrence of the same", the parable...
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"While life needs the services of history, it must just as clearly be comprehended that an excess measure of history will do harm to the living," declares Friedrich Nietzsche in this cautionary polemic. The iconoclastic philosopher warns us about the dangers of an uncritical devotion to the study of the past, which leads to destructive and limiting
results - particularly in cases where long-ago events are exploited for nationalistic purposes.
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Extrait: "Ces psychologues anglais à qui nous sommes redevables des seules tentatives faites jusqu'à présent pour constituer une histoire des origines de la morale, nous présentent en leur personne une énigme qui n'est pas à dédaigner; j'avoue que, par cela même, en tant qu'énigmes incarnées, ils ont sur leurs livres un avantage capital, ils sont eux-mêmes intéressants!"
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Extrait : "La volonté du vrai — qui nous égarera encore dans bien des aventures — cette fameuse véracité, dont tous les philosophes jusqu'à présent on parlé avec vénération : que de questions cette volonté du vrai n'a-t-elle pas déjà soulevé pour nous? Quelles singulières questions, dangereuses, et problématiques? C'est déjà une longue histoire, — et cependant il semble qu'elle ne vienne que de commencer?"
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"Fired with a fearless iconoclasm which surpassed the wildest dreams of contemporary free thought" - The New York Times
Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most scathing and powerful critiques of philosophy, religion, science, politics and ethics ever written - an essential summary of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy.
One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God....
11) The Dawn of Day
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One of the most important philosophers of the nineteenth century, Friedrich Nietzsche's influence on modern thought has extended beyond the borders of philosophy. His works have helped shape modern anthropology, psychology, theology, and sociology. Poets, novelists, and artists have also been touched by Nietzsche's powerful concepts and perspectives. Edited by a noted Nietzsche scholar, this authoritative compendium is a vital assembly of nearly all...
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