Walter Kaufmann's classic edition includes complete texts of five major works that profoundly influenced modern literature and thought. Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Case of Wagner and Ecce Homo, his passionate analysis of his life and work. Included are 75 aphorisms, selections of correspondence and variants from drafts of Ecce Homo.
Author Biography
Peter Gay is Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University and the former director of the Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library. His works include The Enlightenment- The Science of Freedom and Modernism- The Lure of Heresy.
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"Nietzsche is one of the few philosophers since Plato whom large numbers of intelligent people read for pleasure." --Walter Kaufmann
