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The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the death of God in The Gay Science (1882) and went on to challenge the Christian code of morality in Beyond Good and Evil (1886), grappled with the fundamental issues of the human condition in his own intense autobiography, Ecce Homo (1888). Most notorious of all, perhaps, his idea of the triumphantly transgressive übermann ('superman') is developed in the extreme, yet poetic words of Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-92). Whether addressing conventional Western philosophy or breaking new ground, Nietzsche vastly extended the boundaries of nineteenth-century thought.
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Friedrich Nietzsche was born near Leipzig in 1844, the son of a Lutheran clergyman. At 24 he was appointed to the chair of classical philology at Basle University, where he stayed until forced by his health to retire in 1879. Here, he wrote all his literature, including Thus Spake Zarathustra, and developed his idea of the Superman. He became insane in 1889 and remained so until his death in 1900.
R. J. Hollingdale translated eleven of Nietzsche's books and published two books about him; he also translated works by, among others, Schopenhauer, Goethe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Lichtenberg and Theodor Fontane, many of these for Penguin Classics. He was the honorary president of the British Nietzsche Society. R. J. Hollingdale died on 28 September 2001.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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If you've never read Nietzsche before this is a good place to start. R.J. Hollingdale makes a judicious selection from Nietzsche's corpus as befitting one who spent a lifetime devoted to rehabilitating this great thinker for the English speaking world. There is something about Hollingdale's translations that are evocative of the spiritual depths in Nietzsche's prose which turn that prose into a sort of poetry. Nietzsche's perceptions are conveyed here with exceptional lucidity. I read this book nearly twenty years ago and still recall passages from it. This is philosophy you can get your teeth into.
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If you have ever had the slightest curiosity about Nietzsche this would make an excellent starting point. Hollingdale makes a selection from his own superb translations that, as he explains in his introduction, have been ordered for maximum benefit of the reader. What you will make of this is anybody's guess. Some perhaps will run to the hills and avoid any book with Nietzsche's name on it forever but others will have the pleasure of looking further and further into the works of one of the most fascinating people that ever lived.
This is a far easier approach to Nietzsche than trying to read, say, Thus Spake Zarathustra. As good (and essential)as TSZ is it's unlikely to give a great deal of insight into its author if read without the backstory. But whatever happens do read Hollingdale's excellent introduction, in the final two and a half pages he succeeds in giving an overview of Nietzsche that seems to have eluded many an academic.
This is a far easier approach to Nietzsche than trying to read, say, Thus Spake Zarathustra. As good (and essential)as TSZ is it's unlikely to give a great deal of insight into its author if read without the backstory. But whatever happens do read Hollingdale's excellent introduction, in the final two and a half pages he succeeds in giving an overview of Nietzsche that seems to have eluded many an academic.
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I read this book, and also 'Twilight of the Idols' and 'The Antichrist' by the same author, in the early 1980's as a teenager. Tellingly, I can vividly remember the experience to this day which was as thrilling as it was difficult. His polemical prose aginst Christianity is a master class in how to create devastation on the printed page. I also remember finding many parts very opaque and requiring very deliberate reading to begin to understand.
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