ENGLISH

Writings from the Early Notebooks

By Friedrich Nietzsche , Raymond Geuss , Alexander Nehamas , Ladislaus Lob

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0521671809, 9780521671804
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3341053 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Edition
1
Pages
328\326
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-01-03 02:36:08

Description

Nietzsche's unpublished notes are extraordinary in both volume and interest, and indispensable to a full understanding of his lifelong engagement with the fundamental questions of philosophy. This volume includes an extensive selection of the notes he kept during the early years of his career. They address the philosophy of Schopenhauer, the nature of tragedy, the relationship of language to music, the importance of Classical Greek culture for modern life, and the value of the unfettered pursuit of truth and knowledge which Nietzsche thought was a central feature of western culture since it was first introduced by Plato. They contain startling and original answers to the questions which were to occupy Nietzsche throughout his life and demonstrate the remarkable stability and consistency of his fundamental concerns. They are presented here in a new translation by Landislaus Löb, and an introduction by Alexander Nehamas sets them in their philosophical and historical contexts.

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