This volume, which the author called "the most personal of all my books," features the largest collection of Nietzsche's published poetry. It also offers an extensive, sophisticated treatment of his core philosophical themes and views as well as the ideas that proved most influential to later philosophers. Thought-provoking discussions address art and morality, knowledge and truth, the intellectual conscience, and the origin of logic.
German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) ranks among the most influential of modern thinkers. His explorations of the motives underlying Western philosophy, religion, and morality have exercised a profound effect on generations of writers, theologians, philosophers, and psychologists. Although Nietzsche was strongly opposed to nationalism and anti-Semitism, his works were appropriated by Fascists to support the very concepts he deplored.