Description

Cutting through decades of ideological distortions, Montinari offers a lucid, balanced, and rigorously researched introduction to Nietzsche's life and thought.

Nietzsche's unwavering independence, infatuation with strength, and acerbic style have attracted over a century of sustained discourse and debate. Because of his larger-than-life persona, Nietzsche's ideas have been long overshadowed by speculations about his sanity, personal life and retroactive political associations. Mazzino Montinari's classic short introduction to Nietzsche is exceptional for the concision, sobriety, sophistication and balance, cutting through the rumours to the heart of his writings. Here in English for the first time, What Nietzsche Really Said clears away decades of myth-making to recover Nietzsche as he really was. Not as a prophet or system builder but as a thinker in motion who challenged Europe's moral, political and cultural assumptions in ways that still speak to the present.