Books by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This work, part of the "German Library" series, contains a selection of philosophical writings by Nietzsche. This volume includes: "The Birth of Tragedy"; "Beyond Good and Evil"; "The Gay Science"; "Untimely Meditations"; and "Human, All Too Human".

Translation of: Jenseits von Gut und B'ose.

Die Geburt der Tragoedie (1872) is one of the most important philosophical texts of the modern period. Nietzsche traces the origins of Greek tragedy in the encounter between the Dionysian and the Apollonian, and suggests that the music of Richard Wagner has a power to overcome this dichotomy.

This 19th-century literary and philosophical masterpiece introduces the controversial doctrine of the Ubermensch, or "superman," a term later perverted by Nazi propagandists. A provocative work, designed to inspire readers.

Presents the author's major concepts - the master and slave moralities, a pervasive will to power, the heroic overman transcending good and evil, and an eternal recurrence of the same dynamic universe.