The Pre-Platonic Philosophers (International Nietzsche Studies (INS))
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0252074033 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dennis M. Clark said A milestone in Nietzsche scholarship. This book is remarkable on several levels. As a work of scholarship, it is an awesome achievement, considering that Greg Whitlock was able to produce a coherent text of Nietzche's lecture notes, and performed the most helpful task of looking up every citation, confirming its source, and providing extensive notes to clarify . briefly Alaric The other reviews cover the details. I recommend this book; it is excellent and a bargain for the price and quality. Read this and R J Hollingdale's biography and you will have a strong grounding grounding to start with. Also: Mazzino Montinari's Nietzsche Lesen, also translated by Whitlock.. Important Text, but Let me start out by saying that this text is a welcome addition to the serious attempts made to bring Nietzsche's notebooks into publication. Not only, for those of us who are serious Nietzsche schorlars, does The Will To Power have many faults (see my review for it) but we also do not have much if any serious work being do
. Nietzsche has been proclaimed the seminal figure of modern philosophy as well as one of the most creative and critically influential geniuses in the history of secular thought.GREG WHITLOCK is the author of Returning to Sils-Maria: A Commentary on Nietzsche's "Also sprach Zarathustra" and the translator and editor of Friedrich Nietzsche's Pre-Platonic Philosophers
"An excellent translation and commentary on these important texts, important ones not just for Nietzsche 's views but for those of the pre-Platonic philosophers themselves." Fred W. Burnett, Religious Studies Review
Surveying the Greek philosophers from Thales to Socrates, Friedrich Nietzsche (then a philologist) at the University of Basel establishes a chronology for the progression of their natural scientific insights in this text.