Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 The Birth of Tragedy Chapter 4 The Gay Science Chapter 5 Thus Spoke Zarathustra Chapter 6 On the Genealogy of Morals Chapter 7 Notes
David B. Allison is professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the editor of the groundbreaking anthology The New Nietzsche.
David Allison enriches the reading of these key Nietzschean texts
with helpful information and leads the reader to the philosophical
issues at stake. His exposition is informed by the most
sophisticated contemporary debates. First time as well as long time
readers of Nietzsche will find they are discovering a Nietzsche
writing for today.
*Al Lingis, Penn State University*
It is the peculiar (and maybe cruel) fate of Friedrich Nietzsche to
have, a hundred years post facto, an audience that is wide yet
uncomprehending. David Allison's achievement in this lucid,
graceful work is to restore both the difficulty and the warmth of
Nietzsche's message: focusing on four key works, he extends the
range of Nietzsche interpretation precisely by virtue of sanity,
balance and, above all, humaneness. A new Nietzsche? More like the
one who was there all along, waiting for the right reader.
*Mark Kingwell, University of Toronto*
David Allison, as much as anyone else, has helped to make the 'new
Nietzsche' speak English; now he offers provocative and
scintillating readings of four of the most significant and
challenging texts of a thinker who is always renewing himself.
Allison's mastery of the classical and humanistic background of
Nietzsche's writing is impressive; his careful *and* daring
interpretations respond imaginatively to the philosopher's
invitation that reading be an adventure—like a dance and a song in
the mountains. Amazingly, this is a book that will delight and
instruct both the beginner and the scholar.
*Gary Shapiro, Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the
Humanities-Philosophy, University of Richmond*
First time readers of Nietzsche will find these text-based readings
valuable guides to the intricacies of Nietzsche's writing. Readers
already familiar with Nietzsche's works will find the readings
cogent and thoughtful. However, for novice and experienced readers
alike, what is most valuable in Allison's text is the background
information from the history of ideas and from Nietzsche's life the
he brings to bear on his readings.
*Review of Metaphysics*
This is an excellent book. It finds a space for its arguments in
the already-crowded literature, benefits from a simplicity of
writing about complicated matters, and provides the scholarly
references in detailed notes.
*The Heythrop Journal*
Had Nietzsche been aware that so many competing schools of
interpretation would claim him for their own, he would doubtless
have been flattered, after the almost complete neglect his writings
had during his own lifetime. David Allison's book is the only one,
however, he would have endorsed, as having gotten his philosophy
down exactly as he would have wished, but hardly dared expect. The
book is a masterpiece
of exposition and analysis, presenting the work and the life
through a brilliant reading of four of Nietzsche's great books.
Nietzsche's enthusiasts can clear their shelves of the bickering
secondary literature. This is the book to keep.
*Arthur C. Danto, art critic; Professor Emeritus of Philosophy,
Columbia University*
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