Title: How to read Nietzsche /
Authors: Ansell-Pearson, Keith, 1960-
Publisher: Granta Books,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,
Abstract: "Keith Ansell Pearson introduces the reader to Nietzsche's distinctive philosophical style and to the development of his thought. Through a series of close readings of Nietzsche's aphorisms he illuminates some of his best known but often ill-understood ideas, including eternal recurrence and the superman, and brings to light the challenging nature of Nietzsche's thinking on key topics such as beauty, truth and memory."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: The horror of existence -- Human, all too human -- historical versus metaphysical philosophy -- Nietzsche's cheerfulness -- On truth and knowledge -- On memory and forgetting -- Life is a woman, or the ultimate beauties -- The heaviest weight -- The superman -- Nihilism and the will to nothingness -- Behold the man.