Human, All Too Human - Penguin Classics
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Paperback (29 Sep 1994)


Categories: Philosophy History Of Western Philosophy Western Philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, C 500 To C 1600 Western Philosophy: C 1600 To C 1900 Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -


Publishers Synopsis

Written after Nietzsche had ended his friendship with Richard Wagner and had been forced to leave academic life through ill health, Human, All Too Human (1878) can be read as a monument to his personal crisis. It also marks the point when he matured as a philosopher, rejecting the German romanticism espoused by Wagner and Schopenhauer and instead returning to sources in the French Enlightenment. Here he sets out his unsettling views in a series of 638 stunning aphorisms - assessing subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity and women to youth. This work also contains the seeds of concepts crucial to Nietzsches later philosophy, such as the will to power and the need to transcend conventional Christian morality. The result is one of the cornerstones of his lifes work.


Book information

ISBN: 9780140446173
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Pub date: 29 Sep 1994
DEWEY: 193
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 275
Weight: 238g
Height: 198mm
Width: 171mm
Spine width: 19mm