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The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world’s leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, “Few writers in any age were so full of ideas,” and few writers have been so consistently misinterpreted.
The Portable Nietzsche includes Kaufmann’s definitive translations of the complete and unabridged texts of Nietzsche’s four major works: Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Nietzsche Contra Wagner and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In addition, Kaufmann brings together selections from his other books, notes, and letters, to give a full picture of Nietzsche’s development, versatility, and inexhaustibility.
“In this volume, one may very conveniently have a rich review of one of the most sensitive, passionate, and misunderstood writers in Western, or any, literature.” —Newsweek
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The words in the review summary, and also immediately above, demonstrate both the impact Nietzsche believed his writings would come to have, and the wonderfully sarcastic tone evident in much of his work.
Walter Kaufmann included some inspiring sections from Ecce Homo, as indeed he has done with many of Nietzsche's most valuable published works and unpublished notes and letters etc. This is, of course, in addition to the complete and unabridged texts of Nietzsche's four major works.
Kaufmann's introduction provides much welcome biographical information on Nietzsche; in addition, a preface to each of the major chapters is included. I felt that Kaufmann's contribution substantially added to my experience of the book. He seemed always to be close to hand when difficult terminology was encountered. As a result of this positive experience, I have gone on to buy a further two books edited by Walter Kaufmann.
If you buy this book, I am convinced you will agree that almost every page exposes the reader to challenging, inspirational and (at least upon first encountering it) harrowing material. If one should happen upon a page of relative calm, why not linger awhile and enjoy the poetic brilliance of Nietzsche's rhapsodic writing, his cutting humour and that wonderful, wonderful sarcasm!...
The Portable Nietzsche is an excellent book, providing a superb translation of the very best of Nietzsche's works by the greatest translator of Nietzsche there has ever been: Walter Kaufmann.
However! Kindle users beware. Not for the first time, this is a Kindle edition that has been thrown together without any care at all. It is painfully obvious that the publisher has simply taken a paperback version and scanned it through OCR (optical character recognition) software without bothering to check the results. There are so many typos that I can't even believe they ran the thing through a spellchecker! Exclamation marks become rendered as the number 1, "m" becomes "n" and words run into one another frequently. This distracts from the enjoyment of Nietzsche's words and there really is no excuse for the publisher to hide behind. They are charging top price for this Kindle edition and the very least one could expect in return would be for it to have been proofread.
Overall, whilst I enjoy the convenience of the Kindle itself, I would urge Kindle owners to boycott buying the Kindle edition of this book until or unless the publishers see fit to correct the gross number of mistakes with which it is riddled.
1. It contains full texts of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight of the Idols, and The Antichrist, and Nietzsche contra Wagner, plus all the greatest passsages from his other books.
2. It is translated by Kaufmann, and Kaufmann tranlsations are the best
Simple, if you love Nietzsche and your collections do not comply with points 1 or 2, then you need this book.
In those texts, Nietzsche shouts, exhorts, explains or translates via metaphors,... Read more
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