Human, All Too Human

A Book for Free Spirits

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Published 1996 by Cambridge University Press.

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978-0-521-56704-6
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This volume presents Nietzsche's remarkable collection of almost 1400 aphorisms in R. J. Hollingdale's distinguished translation, together with a new historical introduction by Richard Schacht. Subtitled "A Book for Free Spirits," Human, All Too Human marked for Nietzsche a new "positivism" and skepticism with which he challenged his previous metaphysical and psychological assumptions. Nearly all the themes of his later work are displayed here with characteristic perceptiveness and honesty--not to say suspicion and irony--in language of great brio. It remains one of the fundamental works for an understanding of his thought.

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reviewed Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

Nietzsche's Best

5 stars

This, together with The Gay Science, and maybe Daybreak, are the best of Nietzsche's works. Intense, complex, subtle, but never heavy, and it is always to the point. Later he would be doing aggressive non-nuanced attacks that doesn't lead the reader to think; he seemingly wrote many of the passages only for the sake of provoking. Zarathustra has some majestic passages but it is hysterical, theatrical, and moreover a work of dubious quality.

Subjects

  • Philosophy
  • Proto Psychoanalysis