The Will to Power

ISBN: 1522045473

Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich

Condition: New

The Will to Power (German: Der Wille zur Macht) is a book of notes drawn from the literary remains of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche by his sister Elisabeth F?ster-Nietzsche and Peter Gast (Heinrich K?elitz). The title derived from a work that Nietzsche himself had considered writing. After Nietzsches breakdown in 1889, and the passing of control over his literary estate to his sister Elisabeth F?ster-Nietzsche, Nietzsches friend Heinrich K?elitz, also known as Peter Gast, conceived the notion of publishing selections from his notebooks, using one of Nietzsches simpler outlines as a guide to their arrangement. As he explained to Elisabeth on November 8, 1893: ?iven that the original title appears as: The Antichrist. Revaluation of All Values (and therefore not The first book of the revaluation of all values), you may think that your brother at the time of his incipient madness, thought the book completed. ... Notwithstanding, the consequences of this revaluation must also be explicitly illustrated in the field of morality, philosophy, politics. No one today is able to imagine such consequences - thats why the vast preparations by your brother, the other three books of the Revaluation, must be ordered according to my suggestion and gathered in a kind of system.?Between 1894 and 1926, Elisabeth arranged the publication of the twenty volume Gro?ktavausgabe edition of Nietzsches writings by C. G. Naumann. In it, following K?elitz suggestion she included a selection from Nietzsches posthumous fragments, which was gathered together and entitled The Will To Power. She claimed that this text was substantially the magnum opus, which Nietzsche had hoped to write and name "The Will to Power, An Attempt at a Revaluation of All Values". The first German edition, containing 483 sections, published in 1901, was edited by K?elitz, Ernst Horneffer, and August Horneffer, under Elisabeths direction. This version was superseded in 1906 by an expanded second edition containing 1067 sections. This later compilation is what has come to be commonly known as The Will to Power.