Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

· Aeneas Press
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Nietzsche against the philosophers: their systems are confessions, their morality is a herd's, and the will to truth is a will to power in a starched collar. He published it himself in 1886 after his publisher refused it, and sold fewer than a hundred copies. The two hundred and ninety-six numbered sections are meant to be read out of order, and one whole chapter of them is epigrams. Sixty plates of Friedrich and Segantini trace the alpine light Nietzsche's free spirits climb toward, from cloud study to high noon.
Nietzsche against the philosophers: their systems are confessions, their morality is a herd's, and the will to truth is a will to power in a starched collar. He published it himself in 1886 after his publisher refused it, and sold fewer than a hundred copies. The two hundred and ninety-six number...

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was appointed professor of classical philology at Basel at twenty-four, resigned ten years later for his health, and wrote the rest of his work in boarding houses in Switzerland and Italy on an income of nothing. He collapsed in Turin at forty-four and never wrote again; the fame came afterwards, and much of it in forms he would have refused.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was appointed professor of classical philology at Basel at twenty-four, resigned ten years later for his health, and wrote the rest of his work in boarding houses in Switzerland and Italy on an income of nothing. He collapsed in Turin at forty-four and never wrote ...

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