Reading Nietzsche

New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. First ed., first printing (full number line). Octavo with dark red boards in red jacket with white text; xiv, 251 pages: portrait; index; bibliography; 22 cm Fine in fine jacket, now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780195048582, 9780195066739

Paying particular attention to the issue of how to read Nietzsche, this book presents a series of accessible essays on the work of this influential German philosopher. The contributions include many of the leading Nietzsche scholars in the United States today - Frithjof Bergmann, Arthur Danto, Bernd Magnus, Christopher Middleton, Lars Gustaffson, Alexander Nehamas, Richard Schacht, Gary Shapiro, and Ivan Soll - and the majority of the essays have never been published. Works discussed include On the Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight of the Idols, and The Will to Power. Contents: Some remarks on The Genealogy of morals / Arthur C. Danto. Nietzsche's Critique of morality / Frithjof Bergmann. Who are "the philosophers of the future"?: a reading of Beyond good and evil / Alexander Nehamas. Nietzsche's gay science, or, how to naturalize cheerfully / Richard Schacht. Nietzsche's Letters and a poem / Christopher Middleton. Pessimism and the tragic view of life: reconsiderations of Nietzsche's Birth of tragedy / Ivan Soll. Reading Zarathustra / Kathleen Higgins. Deification of the commonplace: twilight of the idols / Bernd Magnus. Dr. Nietzsche's office hours are between 10 and 12 A.M. / Lars Gustafsson. Nietzsche's Daybreak: thoughts on the prejudices of morality / Arthur C. Danto. Writing on the wall: the antichrist and the semiotics of history / Gary Shapiro. Use and abuse of the will to power / Bernd Magnus. .