Perhaps it is due to the fact that we are in denial about the possible existence of the reality Nietzsche describes. Why, then, the persistent lament about Nietzsche’s obscurity? Perhaps the fault for this lies not so much in Nietzsche’s writings as in ourselves. Each of Nietzsche’s sentences and paragraphs, as well as his whole books, are masterfully crafted works of art in addition to being intellectual lightening bolts that lay bare with every flash a radically new way of grasping reality, the world, and ourselves. Moreover, these works are written in a beautifully stylized and frequently poetic language that dispenses with virtually all technical jargon. Yet the books gathered together in this volume articulate his distinct perspective at least as clearly and consistently as most other influential philosophers in the history of the West have articulated theirs. Do we perceive it yet? After more than a century, do we recognize that the psychological landscape in which we move about is the very one described by Nietzsche? How many of us, even after thoroughly reading his books, see that if we burrow deep enough into the intractable dilemmas of our age, we discover at their roots Nietzsche’s preoccupation: The aim is lacking: ‘Why’ finds no answer.? It is often said that Nietzsche is self-contradicting, confusing, and even incomprehensible. Nihilism is at our door, Nietzsche famously wrote. No one else had heard the ominous splitting of history in two with the advent of nihilism-the uncanny and pervasive feeling that life is devoid of all meaning, purpose, and value-that so profoundly affected Nietzsche he could do nothing else with his life but articulate this event. Alas, Nietzsche laments, in his time there were no fish. In his characteristically idiosyncratic literary biography, Ecce Homo, Nietzsche writes that the books he composed after his renowned Zarathustra are fish hooks for catching readers who share his sense that a cataclysmic shift in human psychology has just occurred.
THIS CONVENIENT NEW COMPENDIUM CONTAINS THE FIVE MOST philosophically significant of Nietzsche’s post- Thus Spoke Zarathustra writings. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. This 2012 edition published by Barnes & Noble, Inc.Īll rights reserved. Introduction and Suggested Reading © 2008 by Barnes & Noble, Inc. A NIETZSCHE COMPENDIUM FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHEĮDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID TAFFEL
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