Two representative and important works in one volume by one of the greatest German philosophers.
Professor Kaufmann has also furnished running footnote commentaries, relevant passages from Nietzsche\'s correspondence, a bibliography, and, for the first time in any edition, an extensive index to each book..
The distinguished translations by Walter Kaufmann superbly reflect in English Nietzsche\'s idiom and the vitality of his style.
Each book in itself gives us an inadequate idea of its author; together, they furnish a striking image of Nietzsche\'s thought.
Both works transcend their ostensible subjects and deal with art and culture, as well as the problems of the modern age generally.
In attitude and style it is diametrically opposed to The Birth of Tragedy .
The Case of Wagner (1888) was one Nietzsche\'s last books, and his wittiest.
It exploded the conception of Greek culture that was prevalent down through the Victorian era, and it sounded themes developed in the twentieth century by classicists, existentialists, psychoanalysts, and others.
But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most relevant statements on Tragedy ever penned.
Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche in the brilliant Attempt at a Self-Criticism which he added to the new edition of 1886.
The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche\'s first book.
Two representative and important works in one volume by one of the greatest German philosophers
