About this title: This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann rehabilitated Nietzsche nearly single-handedly, presenting ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1975-02-01
ISBN-13:9780691019833ISBN:0691019835
Description: Excellent. No jacket. Sale for Charity. Proceeds go to fund our Social Service programs. All items are donations and are used, but are carefully checked for condition. Back cover has a bend on one corner otherwise in very good condition. read more
Edition: Fourth Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780691019833ISBN:0691019835
Description: Very Good+ 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xviii, 532pp. read more
Edition: Revised Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1968
ISBN-13:9780394704364ISBN:0394704363
Description: Good with no dust jacket. 0394704363. Softbound, light wear/soil, crease at spine, small crease at corners, tag on front, pgs clean/starting to darken; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Edition: 3d ed., rev. and enl.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York
Date Published: 1968
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Pages while tanning are clean, rubbing and creased corners on the cover, spine is not creased. 524 p. A Vintage giant. Bibliography: p. [477]-502. read more
Edition: 4th Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780691072074ISBN:0691072078
Description: Very Good Minus. No Jacket. Some pages have brief underlining, ex lib with the usual markings, light soiling, otherwise Clean and tight, a solid copy. 6 X 9" Member, Florida Antiquarian Booksellers Association. read more
Edition: 3d ed., rev. and enl.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York
Date Published: 1968
Description: Fine. No dust jacket. tight clean, easy on the eyes, slightly tanned pages. xviii, 524 p. facsims. 21 cm. A Vintage giant. Includes Facsimiles. Bibliography: p. [477]-502. read more
Description: 0691019835 Fourth edition reprint, VG++ trade, 532pp, copy was previously professionally owned w/very neat black ink underlining & line marginalia noted-mostly to rear of copy, text remains bright and fresh-in VG++ cond., no crease to spine. read more
Edition: Fourth Edition {Ninth Printing}
Binding: Pictorial Softcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780691019833ISBN:0691019835
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. "The fourth edition of this major work includes a new preface and a new section at the end of the book. Professor Kaufmann has also extensively updated the bibliography and has made dozens of changes throughout the text, some of which affect the interpretation of major ideas, such as the death of God. " THis book has 532 pages. The text contains NO internal marks whatsoever. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Date Published: 1975-02-01
ISBN-13:9780691019833ISBN:0691019835
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"This book is for anyone who reads Nietzsche and loves it, but doesn't really see a coherent philosophy. Kaufmann looks at Nietzsche's entire legacy and puts together a pretty straight-forward, compelling presentation of his thought. Kaufmann's writing is everything that Nietzsche's isn't, which is a blessing when it comes to clarity but kind of a downer in every other department.
The title is a little sensationalist and misleading - this book is basically a very dense, very competent CliffsNotes.
The lingering question is: if you have to take all the fun and humanity out of Nietzsche's writing to extract his thought, then are you getting the essence of Nietzsche, or just an isolated component? I don't think Kaufmann would argue he's presenting the "complete Nietzsche," just a component that in the 1950s had been sorely overlooked - his actual philosophy."
"Anyone who would read this today already knows that Nietzsche was neither a fascist nor an anti-Semite and some might also have noticed that he was, moreover, a prescient critic of the like. A good deal of Kaufmann's energy here is devoted to confronting these prejudices and, while this needed to be done, it makes the work less relevant then some of the more current discussion of Nietzsche.
Kaufmann does address other issues of interpretation which are still being dealt with: regarding Nietzsche's treatment of Socrates, rationality, consciousness, Jesus and sublimation. On the first three he comes out fairly conservative, yet, here I think Nietzsche has rightfully earned his infamy. Overall, though many might not have had the opportunity to study and discuss Nietzsche had it not been for this important work, it's probably better to look into what Kaufmann ultimately enabled."
"I'm so close to done with this book... I've been picking through it piece-by-piece for years now, but it is a great companion to Nietzsche's life and work-a kind of high-speed, PhD-level Sparknotes, I guess.
Also not for the Nietzsche neophyte, this book is daunting in its density, yet surprisingly readable for the truly interested. A good distillation and interpretation of Nietzsche's life and times and how it all came together in his work."
"Walter Kaufmann is one of the great popularists of philosophy, the Will Durant of his generation. If you are intimidated by the subject and the big names in the history of philosophy, Kaufmann is for you.
If you liked this book, a positive appropriation of the oft-maligned, but ever-popular Nietzsche, then you ought look into his book on Hegel."
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