Hellenists - Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Paul Migne, Friedrich August Wolf, Gilbert Murray, Willis Barnstone, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Edward Musgrave Blaiklock, Jean-Francois Champagne, Antoni Rubio I Lluch, Joachim Latacz, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Paul Migne, Friedrich August Wolf, Gilbert Murray, Willis Barnstone, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Edward Musgrave Blaiklock, Jean-Francois Champagne, Antoni Rubio i Lluch, Joachim Latacz, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Alfonso Reyes, Glenn W. Most, Seth Benardete, Charles Chipiez, Ludvig Vibe, Gareth Alun Owens, Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, Elizabeth Minchin, Florence Stawell, Juan de Iriarte, Edwyn Bevan, Felix Jacoby, Egil Kraggerud, Giorgio Colli, Jesper Svenbro, Karl Julius Beloch, Simon Goldhill, Ioannis Kakridis, Heinz-Gunther Nesselrath, Oivind Andersen, John Aylmer, Hans Herter, R. J. Hopper, Elizabeth Jeffreys. Excerpt: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (German pronunciation: in English, ) (October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900) was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism. Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism, nihilism and postmodernism. His style and radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth have resulted in much commentary and interpretation, mostly in the continental tradition. His key ideas include the death of God, perspectivism, the Ubermensch, the eternal recurrence, and the will to power. Central to his philosophy is the idea of "life-affirmation," which involves an honest questioning of all doctrines that drain life's expansive energies, however socially prevalent those views might be. Nietzsche began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. At the age of 24 he was appointed to the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel (the youngest individual to have held this position), but resigned in 1879...