The Will to Power
by Friedrich Nietzsche · Der Wille zur Macht
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- notes 1883-1888, published 1901
- Form
- Treatise
- Language
- German
- Length
- Long · 570 pp300 to 700 pages
- Difficulty
- Difficult4 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendThe Will to Power, translated by Walter Kaufmann and R. J. HollingdaleVintage, 1968The only complete English version of the 1906 arrangement, with Kaufmann's cautions about its provenance.
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A selection of just over a thousand entries from Nietzsche's notebooks of 1883 to 1888, arranged after his collapse by his sister Elisabeth and the editor Peter Gast under a title and plan he had abandoned. The four books treat European nihilism, the critique of religion, morality and philosophy, a new theory of knowledge and nature as will to power, and the discipline and breeding of a higher type. It is not a book Nietzsche wrote, but it contains much of his most striking late thinking, and for decades it was read as his major work.
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