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The Will to Power

An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II

English translation · Translated by Anthony M. Ludovici

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Questions about the collapse of inherited values shape this collection of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's philosophical notes. This volume contains Books I and II, moving from European nihilism to criticism of religion, morality, and philosophy. The translator explains that the material was arranged after Nietzsche's death from drafts and memoranda intended for a larger work. Its short, numbered passages therefore preserve arguments at different stages of development.

Nietzsche challenges the habit of judging a whole person by a single act. He considers the pressure of circumstances, the effects of public judgment, and the uneasy relationship between actions and identity. Christian moral ideals become subjects for analysis alongside the claims of earlier philosophers. For readers studying debates about values and power, the volume offers a way to follow the questions, comparisons, and abrupt shifts of a thinker working through an unfinished project.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher whose critiques of religion and morality, and his ideas of the will to power and eternal recurrence, left a deep mark on twentieth-century thought. His late works, written in isolation, grew increasingly urgent before mental collapse ended his career.

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