Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits |
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Author:
| Nietzsche, Friedrich |
Translator:
| Faber, Marion Lehmann, Stephen |
Introduction by:
| Faber, Marion Danto, Arthur C. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8032-8368-8 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1996 |
Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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Imprint: | Bison Books |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $21.95 |
Book Description:
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This English translation--the first since 1909--restores
Human, All Too Human to its proper central position in the Nietzsche canon. First published in 1878, the book marks the philosophical coming of age of Friedrich Nietzsche. In it he rejects the romanticism of his early work, influenced by Wagner and Schopenhauer, and looks to enlightened reason and science. The "Free Spirit" enters, untrammeled by all accepted conventions, a precursor of Zarathustra. The result is 638...
More DescriptionThis English translation--the first since 1909--restores Human, All Too Human to its proper central position in the Nietzsche canon. First published in 1878, the book marks the philosophical coming of age of Friedrich Nietzsche. In it he rejects the romanticism of his early work, influenced by Wagner and Schopenhauer, and looks to enlightened reason and science. The "Free Spirit" enters, untrammeled by all accepted conventions, a precursor of Zarathustra. The result is 638 stunning aphorisms about everything under and above the sun.