This is one of the best books on Nietzsche and Jung. It argues very effectively that Nietzsche was not a simple atheist but had his own religious quest. The book is very clearly written despite the difficulty of its subjects. The scholarship is luminous on every page. I've studied Nietzsche and Jung for over twenty years but found myself learning many new things. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in either Nietzsche and Jung. Despite the high price of the book it will be a splendid addition to your library.

Dixon has resolved the conflicting views of two modern geniuses on the lack of wholeness in modern technological culture. This is as current as the madness in Kosovo and Littleton. She cuts throught the jargon, lays out their real, common, and divergent viewpoints, and links them to classical Christian and Grecian thinking. Much of Nietzsche's writings has been totally misread, for several reasons. Buttressed by vast references she explains why, rebuts the errors and reveals an astonishing concurrence between Philosophy and Psychology. She is amazing and very readable while maintaining the highest scholarship.

I have only read the first two pages of this book, but I already give it five stars for the joke on page two. In his critique of Kaufmann's (whom he calls a soft Nietzschean) critique of Nietzsche, Green says something to the effect that one gets the idea from Kaufmann that the overman could very well be a Princeton philosophy professor! I have still not quit laughing.
I just hope the rest of the book is this good!

Green's work deserves a prominent place in contemporary Nietzsche scholarship for several reasons. Firstly, he refuses to shrink back from the many weird or odd things that Nietzsche says; Green isn't interested in "domesticating" Nietzsche so that he sounds just like another analytic philosopher. Secondly, he insists on the connections between Nietzsche's thought and the philosophy and science (both natural and social) of his day, thereby making Nietzsche look like less of a Wunderkind and more like a serious philosopher, deeply engaged with the thinkers and issues of his day. Thirdly, by placing Nietzsche's epistemology in relation to Kant and neo-Kantianism, Green succeeds in showing both that Nietzsche does in fact have an epistemology (which both traditional analytic philosophers and more "postmodern" thinkers have doubted) and that his epistemology has little in common with the "pragmatism" and "empiricism" with which English-speaking philosophers are comfortable. In short, Green demonstrates that Nietzsche not only believed very strange things, but that he had excellent reasons for doing so, and those of us who are attracted to both Kantianism and to naturalism should follow Nietzsche's lead in working through the consequences of these positions.

My primary criticism of this work would be that "the French Nietzscheans" (i.e. Derrida, Foucault, and above all, Deleuze) are rudely dismissed early on. Green implies that Nietzsche should be read as a "naturalist" and not as a "postmodernist". But why accept this false dichotomy? Given the ways in which Nietzsche radicalizes traditional (i.e. Kantian) categories by way of his Heraclitean naturalism, it at least seems plausible that the post-structuralists are following Nietzsche's lead quite faithfully. One of the origins of "postmodernism" would then be seen to lie in the conflict between Kantianism and naturalism that animates Nietzsche's work.

In this book, Kaufmann remarks that Nietzsche is easier to read and harder to understand than nearly any other philosopher. This is probably the reason that Nietzsche, as he feared,is still terribly misunderstood. Kaufmann presents Nietzsche with such clarity and develops his arguments with such skill, that I found myself understanding a large part of Nietzsche philosophy COHERENTLY for the first time. I seriously recommend this book for anyone who wants understand this often mysterious man. I should also add that the first chapter of the book is an interesting 40 page biography, which does a lot to dispell many of the rumors surrounding Nietzsche's life, as well as telling how these rumors came about (you will find that the majority are the fault of his sister). Great Book.

Walter Kaufman is a scholar with a thorough knowledge of his subject. Unlike many others he does not impose his views on the subject. This book is a must read for anyone with even a passing interest in Nietzsche and his works.

This is in response to the previous review from the russian reviewer- This book is expensive because it is not destined for the general public but for libraries which operate as business do, with other concerns besides the price of books. As far as this volume is concerned I am sure that anyone who is initiated and seriously interested in scholarly study of Nietzsche will appreciate these articles, but I might suggest going to your local university library to read it.

I couldn't afford to buy this book. I wonder what it is. I wonder if the words are typed on the page using cocaine or speed or acid or something. I mean for that kind of money, what the hell are you getting? IT'S ONLY DEAD TREES FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!!! Do not buy this book. You can get those trashy romance novels for like $2.

This is a great, however brief, look into the life of one of the world's greatest minds. Hayman opens with a fleeting glance at Nietzsche's genealogy before diving into the seemingly bright life of the future philosopher. He cites Nietzsche's pendulum-esque nationalistic devotion prior to his near-death collapse from a horse. He then charts Nietzsche's intellectual progress from the life-altering secondhand bookstore find of Schopenhauer to the later critique of previous idols Wagner, Kant, and Renee. Hayman, however repetitiously (though nonetheless factually), outlines Nietzsche's incessant battle with illness throughout his life. The key to this text is that is does not attempt a definitive stance at the perpetual enigma as to the cause of Nietzsche's demise, but rather outlines possibilities starting from birth until his death. For those unfamiliar with the German titles of Nietzsche's works, it will require a bit of page flipping to the appendix until one grows accustomed to Hayman's methodology. Also, all passages from the philosopher's works are translated by Hayman that, in some cases, are clearer and more concise than the renounced Kaufmann readings. My only complaint is that Hayman didn't spend more pages in his great explication of the philosopher's life. I rate this alongside Monk's biography of Wittgenstein.

This biography is the most accurate and indeed, critical. It dealves into the life and thought of one of the greatest thinkers in Western Europe. Anyone who wishes to have a good introduction into Friedrich Nietzsche should read this book...by all means, read it!!

Nietzsche's announcement of God's death first appeared here, in The Gay Science. Also, this is the first book in which he mentions the Eternal Reccurence (see the second to the last aphorism of the fourth "book"). Zarathustra's prologue is also here (that's the last aphorism of the fourth book). Book 5 of the Gay Science was added in 1885, and covers Nietzsche's mature philosophy (post-Zarathustra period). Overall a good read.

Section 312 of this book is called "my dog" (on a combination of being faithful, obtrusive and shameless, "just as entertaining, just as clever as every other dog" (p. 177), but it is about Nietzsche's relationship to his pain. There is another book by Nietzsche, THE WANDERER AND HIS SHADOW, in which section 38 mentions "The bite of conscience" as a stupidity, like the bite of a dog into a stone. (Portable Nietzsche, p. 68). There is also a section in THE GAY SCIENCE about beggars using a stone to knock where there is no bell. This translation has an entry in the index for "beggars, and courtesy." The Walter Kaufmann translation listed section titles on pages ix-xviii, but Kaufmann didn't have an entry in the index for beggars or for bell, and though I may have rung Walter Kaufmann's bell a number of times, before and since I started writing reviews, my mental efforts to knock the war against the United Stoners of America has reached such a modern point of indifference in its approach to everything that what Walter Kaufmann thought about anything is of hardly any concern to those who would like an understanding of what is going on. I expect this book, which allows a comparison of minor differences on major matters, to be quite useful to me. I find it extremely comical when this translation makes something funny that in Walter Kaufmann's translation was only puzzling, but even the index of this book skips from women to words with no entry for wooden iron. There is no entry for iron between interruption, intuition, Islam, and Italian opera. But in the text itself, just before section 357 "On the old problem: `What is German?' " the end of section 356 raises the primary question any modern philosopher can face:

Free society? Well, well! But surely you know, gentlemen, what one needs to build that? Wooden iron! The famous wooden iron! And it need not even be wooden. (p. 217)

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Romulus is one of the biggest hits of this sardonic Swiss playwright and novelist. Known in the USA only for The Viisit and the Physicists, Durrenmatt is one of this century's most brilliant theatrical lights. His works are informed by sardonic humor, beautiful language, intriguing plot twists, high suspense (he pot-boiled murder mysteries)and political insight. His essays are also interesting. Anything by him is going to be a good read.

Indepth studies of the art as well as breath-taking color photographes. An unbelievable collection that is a must have for any sculpture enthusiast. A bargain among art books and art history books alike.

I first saw this set after returning from Florence and was delighted to find the highest quality reproductions of Donatello's work that I had seen. Further examination showed that that this four volume set reviewed sculpture in both breadth and depth, an astonishing success far beyond coffee-table status. In addition, the set has turned out to be a special gift greatly appreciated by all who love art, whether or not sculpture is a special interest to them.

David Constantine has achieved the near-impossible. His translations take us to the core of Holderlin's psyche, with all it's passion and grief and mystery. Earlier translations of Holderlin aimed for accuracy and lost the deep compassion in this poet's work. If you've never read Holderlin before, or gave up because of the ridgidity and obfuscation of the translation, get this book. The beauty of Constantine's work truly reflects the poet's great heart.

If you want to read the world from the hands of a mad man. Hölderlin, a mad man, a heart full of love and patience, is writing to truth about it. You can feel the air of darkness, the blindness of humanbeings. The traditional loneliness comes after him, but pure and without the pain. The only pain in Hölderlin is to live. The room full of all kinds of flowers, dust, rain and purity. If you are looking the meaning of poetry, you can find it where it once belong to.

Today there's flood of articles that try to explain how transactions work under asymmetric information. They are related to the question for the design, for example, of rules that guarantee a so-called "first best solution". I think there are many unanswered question here: How can you measure first best situations? Is it recommendable to do such investigations, when there's a situation with asymmetric information, where you don't know what an unexpected change of information may implicate? And finally, how can we assume that the economist has the overall view on how things are working?

All these questions have normative and methodological aspects. "Studies..." gives you a very interesting view on the limitations of our understanding regarding the mechanisms of the economy. However, Hayeks liberal approach makes it understandable why laws, orders and rules have their limitations: First best solutions cannot be achieved because rules themselves are incomplete.

My favorite articles are "Degrees of Explanation" (methodologically oriented paper) and "The Cooperation in a Democratic Society: In Whose Interest Ought It To and Will It Be Run?" (normative approach). Here you'll find a deeper understanding of economics

This book is very important if one is planning to study Hayek. This book contains all the seed of his subsequent studies. All Hayek books, written after 1967, refers to this book. Certain item in his subsequent studies are even hard to understand without a reference to "Studies ......... ". Therefore a reprint of this book is important.