A collection of essays by Schopenhauer on the perception of the importance of art, morality and self awareness in a blind struggle against a Godless, meaningless world radically transformed our understanding of the individual and remains a searing vision of the human condition.
One of the most iconoclastic thinkers of all time, Friedrich Nietzsche continues to challenge the boundaries of conventional religion and morality with his subversive theories of the 'superman', the individual will, the death of God and the triumph of an all-powerful human life force.
Literatura o Nietzschem je rozsáhlá a neustále se rozrůstá. Existuje množství různých a mnohdy nesmiřitelných teorií o jeho filosofii, ale R. J. Hollingdale se domnívá, že úvod k Nietzschemu by se neměl stát úvodem k jeho komentátorům a kritikům. Namísto polemik uvádí co nejvíce citací: účelem knihy je přimět čtenáře, aby si přečetl Nietzscheho sám a stal se sám sobě vykladačem jeho díla. Tato obsáhlá monografie o jedné z nejvýznamnějších postav filosofie 19. století, která měla obrovský vliv na sociokulturní formování století našeho, je považována odbornou veřejností za jednu z nejlepších na dané téma. Zvláštní pozornost autor věnuje vztahu mezi Nietzscheho filosofickým dílem a utvářením politických schémat a jejich pohybu, jež souvisely s oživováním zájmu o tohoto myslitele. Hollingdale neopomíjí ani další Nietzscheho aktivity: poezii, filologii či zájem o hudbu.
Masterful translations of the great philosopher’s major work on ethics, along with his own remarkable review of his life and works. On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) shows Nietzsche using philsophy, psychology, and classical philology in an effort to give new direction to an ancient discipline. The work consists of three essays. The first contrasts master morality and slave morality and indicates how the term "good" has widely different meanings in each. The second inquiry deals with guilt and the bad conscience; the third with ascetic ideals—not only in religion but also in the academy. Ecce Homo, written in 1898 and first published posthumously in 1908, is Nietzsche's review of his life and works. It contains chapters on all the books he himself published. His interpretations are as fascinating as they are invaluable. Nothing Nietzsche wrote is more stunning stylistically or as a human document. Walter Kaufmann's translations are faithful of the word and spirit of Nietzsche, and his running footnote commentaries on both books are more comprehensive than those in his other Nietzsche translations because these two works have been so widely misunderstood.
This is the second volume to appear in an edition that will be the first complete, critical, and annotated English translation of all of Nietzsches work. Volume 2: Unfashionable Observations, translated by Richard T. Gray, was published in 1995. The edition is a new English translation, by various hands, of the celebrated Colli-Montinari edition, which has been acclaimed as one of the most important works of scholarship in the humanities in the last quarter century. The original Italian edition was simultaneously published in French, German, and Japanese. This volume of Human, All Too Human, the first of two parts, is the earliest of Nietzsches works in which his philosophical concerns and methodologies can be glimpsed. In this work Nietzsche began to establish the intellectual difference from his own cultural milieu and time that makes him our contemporary. Published in 1878, it marks both a stylistic and an intellectual shift away from Nietzsches own youthful affiliation with Romantic excesses of German thought and culture typified by Wagnerian opera.
This was the first of Fontane's sixteen novels, most of which became classics of the realist genre. Set in Berlin, shortly before the Prussians rebelled against Napoleon, the novel resembles War and Peace. This World's Classics edition is the first and only available in Englishtranslation.
Innehåller: Otidsenliga betraktelser I-IV Vi filologer Om våra bildningsanstalters framtid Fem företal till fem oskrivna böcker Om sanning och lögn i utmmoralisk mening
An entirely new translation of Nietzsche's fourth book, which falls in what is regarded as his "positivist" period. Especially notable for the advance it represents in his understanding of psychology.
The ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not religious
Nietzscheho sestra Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche píše v úvode k jeho posmrtne vydanej práci Vôľa k moci (Der Wille zur Macht), že hoci Nietzsche pokladal za svoje hlavné, ale básnické dielo prácu Tak hovoril Zarathustra, chcel mať aj prozaické hlavné dielo a rozhodol sa napísať rozsiahlu Vôľu k moci, ktorú aj v rokoch 1884-88 napísal. Sú to však zväčša iba poznámky k budúcim prácam, ktoré však už nestihol dokončiť pre duševnú chorobu, čo vypukla zakrátko potom. Vôľa k moci ako poznanie (Der Wille zur Macht als Erkenntnis) je časťou tejto práce, v ktorej aplikuje vôľu k moci na teóriu poznania. Nietzsche tu zaujal nový postoj vo výklade tejto teórie, ktorý ho napokon viedol k popretiu možnosti teórie poznania vôbec. Ako keby sa bol zrazu prepracoval k vlastnému chápaniu podstaty života, totiž, že ním nie je schopenhauerovská vôľa k životu, ale vôľa k moci. A akoby v krátkom čase chcel dobehnúť, čo v predchádzajúcich dielach zameškal a v rozsiahlej Vôli k moci to aspoň doplniť, keď už nie splniť.
