"In this volume, one may very conveniently have a rich review of one of the most sensitive, passionate,
and misunderstood writers in Western, or any, literature."
--Newsweek
Submitted By Publisher, August, 2004
Summary
The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his
first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world's leading authorities on Nietzsche,
notes in his introduction, "Few writers in any age were so full of ideas," and few writers have been
so consistently misinterpreted.
The Portable Nietzsche includes Kaufmann's definitive translations of the complete and unabridged texts of Nietzsche's
four major works: Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Nietzsche Contra Wagner and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In
addition, Kaufmann brings together selections from his other books, notes, and letters, to give a full picture
of Nietzsche's development, versatility, and inexhaustibility.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chronology
Bibliography
Letter to His Sister
Fragment of a Critique of Schopenhauer
On Ethics
Note (1870-71)
From Homer's Contest
Notes (1873)
From On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense
Notes about Wagner
Notes (1874)
Notes (1875)
From Human, All-Too-Human
From Mixed Opinions and Maxims
From The Wanderer and His Shadow
Letter to Overbeck
Notes (1880-81)
From The Dawn
Postcard to Overbeck
From The Gay Science
Draft of a Letter to Paul Rée
