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'This world is the will to power - and nothing besides! And even you yourselves are this will to power - and nothing besides!' One of the great minds of modernity, Friedrich Nietzsche smashed through the beliefs of his age. These writings, which did much to establish his reputation as a philosopher, offer some of his most powerful and troubling thoughts- on how the values of a new, aggressive elite will save a nihilistic, mediocre Europe, and, most famously, on the 'will to power' - ideas that were seized upon and twisted by later readers. Taken from Nietzsche's unpublished notebooks and assembled by his sister after his death, The Will to Powernow appears in a clear, fluent new translation, with previous errors corrected in light of the original manuscripts. Translated by R. Kevin Hill and Michael Scarpitti With an introduction and notes by R. Kevin Hill… (more)
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The new translation published in Penguin Classics strips away the anachronisms of earlier versions giving clear access to Nietzsche's thought.
To start with, this isn't really a book, but it's rather a collection of notes that would have been a book. Probably the most notorious thing of this is the fact his sister edited it to fit her Nazi ideas. This edition
With that said, this is still a messy book. It has a ton of ideas thrown at you. Nietzsche likes to rant like he's on social media. This book is very critical to Christianity. I was surprised or forgot he was into Buddhism though. Kind of makes sense.
While I liked this, I wouldn't recommended this as your first Nietzsche read.