Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 (Keywords)

'Little Black Classics' celebrate the huge range and diversity of 'Penguin Classics', with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russia...

Nietzsche's text sums up the forces and counterforces acting in 19th century Western civilization that determined and continue to inform the course of 20th century history, society, politics, religion and philosophy.

This work confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. This edition includes a commentary on the text by the translator and Michael Tanner's introduction, which explains some of the more abstract passages. A new chronology and suggestions for further reading are...

In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and 'Ecce Homo' remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written.

Nietzsche's devastating demolition of religion would have seismic consequences for future generations. With God dead, he envisages a brilliant future for humanity: one in which individuals would at last be responsible for their destinies. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. The...

'Human, All Too Human' (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. The result is one of the cornerstones of his life's work. 'Beyond Good and Evil' (1886) is a scathing and powerful critique of philosophy, religion and science.

'The Joyous Science' is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of morality, the arts and modernity give way to an exhilarating doctrine of self-emancipation and the concept of eternal recurrence. Here is Nietzsche at his most personal and a...

Selections from Nietzche's writings providing an introduction to his work and thought. We see a mind grappling with the fundamental issues of human existence, striving to extend the boundaries of thought and concluding that, in the face of so much that is inexplicable, there is no truth.

‘God is dead’, he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life, but with the next. Nietzsche emphasises the Übermensch, or Superman, whose will to power makes him the creator of a new heroic mentality. The intensely felt ideas are expresse...

The ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not religious.