"Nietzsche is one of the few philosophers since Plato whom large numbers of intelligent people read for
pleasure."
--Walter Kaufmann
Random House, Inc. Web Site, March, 2002
Summary
One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern
era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works, from his
first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner;
and Ecce Homo. Edited and translated by the great Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, this volume provides a definitive
guide to the full range of Nietzsche's thought.
Included also are seventy-five aphorisms, selections from Nietzsche's correspondence, and variants from drafts
for Ecce Homo.
