Friedrich Nietzsche's thoughts in 140 characters or less. Tweetable Nietzsche introduces and analyzes the worldview of Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche’s tweets, 140 characters or less, provide readers a distilled essence of every major aspect of his worldview. Each tweet illustrates some aspect of his worldview contributing toward a full-orbed understanding of Nietzsche’s thought. Friedrich Nietzsche radically confronted Western culture, morality, and social mores, until his death in 1900. Occupying a first-rank position as a thinker, his thought later inspired numerous movements that weave the tapestries of contemporary culture: existentialism, theology, nihilistic culture, Nazism, twentieth century film and art, atheism, ethical egoism, deconstruction, the hermeneutics of suspicion, and the postmodern age. Nietzsche's incalculable sway on our culture persists to this day. Even his acerbic criticism of Christianity has affected the religion. But many people remain unaware of the pervasive attitudes Nietzsche disseminated, attitudes they echo. His stark prophecy that "God is dead, and we killed him" thrives in this accelerating secular age where postmodernists lionized him as a prophetic voice of a new era.

For Jeffrey Masten, the history of sexuality and the history of language are intimately related. In Queer Philologies, he studies particular terms that illuminate the history of sexuality in Shakespeare's time and analyzes the methods we have used to study sex and gender in literary and cultural history. Building on the work of theorists and historians who have, following Foucault, investigated the importance of words like "homosexual," "sodomy," and "tribade" in a variety of cultures and historical periods, Masten argues that just as the history of sexuality requires the history of language, so too does philology, "the love of the word," require the analytical lens provided by the study of sexuality. Masten unpacks the etymology, circulation, transformation, and constitutive power of key words within the early modern discourse of sex and gender—terms such as "conversation" and "intercourse," "fundament" and "foundation," "friend" and "boy"—that described bodies, pleasures, emotions, sexual acts, even (to the extent possible in this period) sexual identities. Analyzing the continuities as well as differences between Shakespeare's language and our own, he offers up a queer lexicon in which the letter "Q" is perhaps the queerest character of all.

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DigiCat presents to you this unique and meticulously edited Nietzsche collection: Beyond Good and Evil The Genealogy of Morals The Birth of Tragedy or, Hellenism And Pessimism The Antichrist Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None The Case of Wagner The Twilight of the Idols The Will to Power (Vol. 1&2) The Gay Science or, The Joyful Wisdom We Philologists Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is The Greek State The Greek Woman On Music and Words Homer's Contest The Relation of Schopenhauer's Philosophy to a German Culture Philosophy During the Tragic Age of the Greeks On Truth and Falsity in Their Ultramoral Sense Collected Letters Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher, poet and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. Because of Nietzsche's evocative style and provocative ideas, his philosophy generates passionate reactions. His works remain controversial, due to varying interpretations and misinterpretations of his work. In the Western philosophy tradition, Nietzsche's writings have been described as the unique case of free revolutionary thought, that is, revolutionary in its structure and problems, although not tied to any revolutionary project. Some prominent elements of his philosophy include his genealogical critique of religion and Christian morality; the related theory of master–slave morality; the characterization of the human subject as the expression of competing wills, collectively understood as the will to power; and influential concepts such as the Übermensch and the doctrine of eternal return.

Friedrich Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and Hellenism & Pessimism' delves into the complexities of human nature, morality, and the eternal struggle between good and evil. Through a combination of philosophical discourse and poetic prose, Nietzsche challenges traditional values and encourages readers to embrace individualism and self-discovery. Drawing inspiration from ancient Greek philosophy, Nietzsche explores the concepts of nihilism and the will to power, inviting readers to question societal norms and create their own path to fulfillment. This collection showcases Nietzsche's unique literary style, blending intellectual depth with metaphorical richness, making it a seminal work in the realm of existential philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher known for his critiques of religion and morality, wrote these timeless works as a response to the prevailing cultural norms of his time, seeking to provoke thought and introspection among his readers. Nietzsche's own struggles with illness and solitude undoubtedly influenced his writings, infusing them with a sense of urgency and personal reflection. I highly recommend Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and Hellenism & Pessimism' to readers interested in exploring profound philosophical ideas and challenging the status quo. This collection serves as a valuable resource for those seeking to expand their understanding of human existence and the complexities of moral philosophy.

This volume offers new translations of five of Nietzsche's late works.

The four short works in Untimely Meditations were published by Nietzsche between 1873 and 1876.They deal with such broad topics as the relationship between popular and genuine culture, strategies for cultural reform, the task of philosophy, the nature of education, and the relationship between art, science and life. They also include Nietzsche's earliest statement of his own understanding of human selfhood as a process of endlessly 'becoming who one is'. As Daniel Breazeale shows in his introduction to this new edition of R. J. Hollingdale's translation of the essays, these four early texts are key documents for understanding the development of Nietzsche's thought and clearly anticipate many of the themes of his later writings. Nietzsche himself always cherished his Untimely Meditations and believed that they provide valuable evidence of his 'becoming and self-overcoming' and constitute a 'public pledge' concerning his own distinctive task as a philosopher.