In 1961, two Italian scholars of GermanâGiorgio Colli and his former student Mazzino Montinariâcame to the conclusion that inconsistencies in the various German editions of Nietzscheâs writings necessitated a definitive Critical Edition of the Collected Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, based on an examination of Nietzscheâs actual notebooks at the Goethe-Schiller Archiv in Weimar. Relativist, atheist, existentialist, Nazi. The Birth of Tragedy, 1872, 1886 -- Nietzscheâs first book, published at the age of twenty-seven, on the origin of Greek tragedy.Nietzsche searches for an aesthetic justification for human life. Publisherâs description: One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era.Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzscheâs most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Case of Wagner, and Ecce Homo. Nietzsche had been called to a chair at the University of Basel in Switzerland in 1869, at the age of twenty-four, and promoted to a professorship the next year. In 2011, we asked Nietzsche expert Brian Leiter to explain the appeal of the controversial philosopher and to recommend books by and about him. Most of the book was written just before Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the last part five years later, after Beyond Good and Evil. Browse author series lists, sequels, pseudonyms, synopses, book covers, ratings and awards. You may copy ... self as one would have to laugh in order to laugh out of the veriest Human, All-Too-Human: A Book for Free Spirits, Part 2 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 333 downloads Der Wille zur Macht: Eine Auslegung alles Geschehens (German) Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 241 downloads Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 188 downloads His published writings total about 2,000 pages, written over about 15 years. Of course his books differ by the main ideas they provide but I don't think the order really matters as long as you give yourself some resources to understand the content as well. Nietzsche was a workaholic. Like Schopenhauerâs Will, it is an irrational force that surges up from dark origins, and it expresses itself in wild drunken frenzies, sexual abandon, and festivals of cruelty. All have been said of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, some with more reason than others. "Nietzsche's Best 8 Books" is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative 3.0 License. All eight digital books in the "Nietzsche Love of Fate Series" are unabridged. Friedrich Nietzsche -- the complete book list in order (17 books). As a reader, you are able to see him slowly slipping into an angry, troubled darkness which marked the last decade of his life. Nietzsche has the advantage to write in a simple way (most of the time): one paragraph equals an idea. In his first book, "The Birth of Tragedy," Nietzsche posits what he calls a âDionysianâ impulse as the source of Greek tragedy. Nietzsche's works are arranged in the book in chronological order. Iâve gone on record before saying that the worst place to begin is Thus Spake Zarathustra, and while Iâve softened that opinion a bit, I still think that there are less âfundamentalâ and well-known works of his that are better starting places. The Case of Wagner/Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christian/Ecce Homo/Dionysus-Dithyrambs/Nietzsche Contra Wagner; Unpublished Fragments from the Period of The Birth of Tragedy (Fall 1869âSpring 1872) Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations The book contains some of Nietzsche's most sustained discussions of art and morality, knowledge and truth, the intellectual conscience and the origin of logic.