Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction

6 best books like Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction (Michael Tanner): Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Gay Science, On the Genealogy of Morals, Twilight of the Idols, Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

Horror movies never frightened me in the same way certain works of literature and film did. Reading through Zarathustra as a teenager was a singularly powerful experience; the work defies categorization or genre, time or place. I was warned that Nietzsche was dangerous for young readers (like Machiavelli)...

Beyond Good and Evil

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics.

Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects...

The Gay Science

Author	Friedrich Nietzsche
ISBN	0394719859

If you read Nietzsche while not in the midst of some variety of emo existential crisis, Nietzsche is hilarious and insightful. If, however, you choose to read Nietzsche in high school in order to be counter-culture, odds are good Nietzsche will temporarily turn you into a horrible, pompous ass. Nietzsche...

On the Genealogy of Morals

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of...

Twilight of the Idols

Author	Friedrich Nietzsche
ISBN	0872203549

Twilight of the Idols presents a vivid, compressed overview of many of Nietzsche’s mature ideas, including his attack on Plato’s Socrates and on the Platonic legacy in Western philosophy and culture. Polt provides a trustworthy rendering of Nietzsche’s text in contemporary American English,...

Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction

Author	Adam J. Silverstein
ISBN	0199545723

Does history matter? This book argues not that history matters, but that Islamic history does. This Very Short Introduction introduces the story of Islamic history; the controversies surrounding its study; and the significance that it holds - for Muslims and for non-Muslims alike. Opening with...