Publisher's Synopsis
A unique edition:
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- annotated, with an introduction by Dr. Oscar Levy
From the Author, who gave the lectures presented in this book on Nietzsche in 1908: "I am going to speak to you of Friedrich Nietzsche-the Immoralist. A philosopher more difficult to understand, and yet more full of riches for those who do understand him, it would be hard to find. Why should I wish to speak to you of Nietzsche? The literature which has grown round his name and philosophy is already enormous. If you have read a third of it, you are already informed concerning him. Nietzsche died but eight years ago, and he is now one of the most striking figures of modern European philosophy. It is with the deepest regret, however, that the inquirer into his life and works, gradually realises how completely and often maliciously, he has been misinterpreted and misjudged;-not only by ignorant commentators and by many of those learned professors who have been lured to the exposition of his works by the latter's inherent fascination, but even by his best and oldest friends as well. That is why I wish to speak to you of Friedrich Nietzsche: because he has been misrepresented, and it were well for you to know him as he is;-indeed, it is a pressing necessity that you should know him as he is."
