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The Pre-Platonic Philosophers

By Friedrich Nietzsche , Gregory Whitlock

Book information

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0252074033, 9780252074035
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6692391 bytes)
Series
International Nietzsche Studies (INS)
Pages
336\338
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-01-03 02:30:50

Description

"The Pre-Platonic Philosophers" supplies English-language readers with a crucial missing link in Nietzsche's development by reproducing the text of a lecture series delivered by the young philosopher (then a philologist) at the University of Basel between 1872 and 1876. In these lectures, Nietzsche surveys the Greek philosophers from Thales to Socrates, establishing a new chronology for the progression of their natural scientific insights. He also roughly sketches concepts such as the will to power, eternal recurrence, and self-overcoming and links them to specific pre-Platonics. Greg Whitlock is the first scholar to have wrestled Nietzsche's difficult manuscript into English. This superbly readable translation, now in paperback for the first time, is complete with Nietzsche's own extensive sidenotes and philological citations, and is accompanied by a prologue, an introductory essay, commentary on the lectures, and voluminous bibliographical materials.

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