Friedrich Nietzche (1844-1900) wrote The Antichrist (1888) after Thus Spake Zarathustra and shortly before the mental collapse that incapacitated him for the rest of his life. This work is both an unrestrained attack on Christianity and a further exposition of Nietzche's will-to-power philosophy so dramatically presented in Zarathustra. Christianity, says Nietzche, 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, Nietzche 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 what Nietzche saw as the crippling influence of the Judeo-Christian tradition, The Antichrist has proved to be highly controversial and continuously stimulating to later generations of philosophers.

La forza del pensiero nietzschiano passa anche attraverso la produzione lirica dell'autore. La curatrice ha ritagliato dalle opere più importanti le composizioni poetiche, che consentono di interpretare il pensiero di Nietzsche da un punto di vista inedito.

Con questa nuova traduzione de 'L'anticristo', accompagnata da una postfazione che rivisita tutte le problematiche nietzschiane, si vuole riproporre un autore che per la sua ideologia è stato l'ispiratore e il guru dell'estremismo di destra, da Hitler ai naziskin dei nostri giorni. Ma in Nietzsche c'è molto di più: la lotta accanita contro il cristianesimo, l'anticipazione dell'inconscio freudiano, l'esaltazione della pulsione sessuale.

The Birth of Tragedy is one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period. The theories developed in this relatively short text have had a profound influence on the philosophy, literature, music and politics of the twentieth century. This edition presents a new translation by Ronald Speirs and an introduction by Raymond Geuss that sets the work in its historical and philosophical context. The volume also includes two essays on related topics that Nietzsche wrote during the same period.

Fra l'aprile e l'ottobre 1882 Friedrich Nietzsche, allora all'apice della sua creatività ma ignoto al pubblico più vasto, la giovane e affascinante russa Lou von Salomé e il filosofo Paul Rée furono legati da un sodalizio vibrante, fonte di innumerevoli pettegolezzi, ricostruzioni, interpretazioni. Il fatto centrale e più significativo di questo rapporto triangolare fu che Nietzsche riconobbe in Lou l'unico essere femminile che avrebbe desiderato iniziare alle sue scoperte. Questa lacerante vicenda si è dispiegata davanti ai nostri occhi solo in anni recenti, allorché Ernst Pfeiffer ha potuto radunare tutti i documenti: lettere, ma anche testimonianze laterali.

Sono scritti che vanno dalle poesie e pagine di diario del Nietzsche quattordicenne ai primi saggi di riflessioni sulla storia e sull'arte. E' anche evidente in questa fase il suo interesse per il mondo della mitologia nordica e germanica, come pure la tendenza a elaborare in composizioni poetiche i pensieri ispiratigli da personaggi storici e dalle figure di grandi artisti.

The four early essays in Untimely Meditations are key documents for understanding the development of Nietzsche's thought and clearly anticipate many of his later writings. They deal with such broad topics as the relationship between popular and genuine culture, strategies for cultural reform, the task of philosophy, the nature of education, and the relationship among art, science and life. This new edition presents R. J. Hollingdale's translation of the essays and a new introduction by Daniel Breazeale, who places them in their historical context and discusses their significance for Nietzsche's philosophy.

Daybreak marks the arrival of Nietzsche's 'mature' philosophy and is indispensable for an understanding of his critique of morality and 'revaluation of all values.' This volume presents the distinguished translation by R. J. Hollingdale, with a new introduction that argues for a dramatic change in Nietzsche's views from Human, All too Human to Daybreak, and shows how this change, in turn, presages the main themes of Nietzsche's later and better-known works such as On the Genealogy of Morality. The edition is completed by a chronology, notes and a guide to further reading.

This volume presents Nietzsche's remarkable collection of almost 1400 aphorisms in R. J. Hollingdale's distinguished translation, together with a new historical introduction by Richard Schacht. Subtitled 'A Book for Free Spirits,' Human, All Too Human marked for Nietzsche a new 'positivism' and skepticism with which he challenged his previous metaphysical and psychological assumptions. Nearly all the themes of his later work are displayed here with characteristic perceptiveness and honesty--not to say suspicion and irony--in language of great brio. It remains one of the fundamental works for an understanding of his thought.