The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is no escaping Nietzsche,” Mencken once wrote. “You may hold him a hissing and a mocking and lift your virtuous skirts as you pass him by, but his roar is in your ears and his blasphemies sink into your mind.” It was with this thought that Mencken began The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, a bold attempt to introduce Nietzsche’s philosophical work to a popular American audience. This important overview of Nietzsche’s corpus, now revised and edited for the first time in over 100 years, is both the ideal primer for first-time readers of Nietzsche and a handy reference for scholars and acolytes of the German professor.