Volume 27, Number 7 · May 1, 1980
The Brave Immoralist
By Philippa Foot
Nietzsche Volume One: The Will to Power as Art
by Martin Heidegger, translated by David Farrell Krell
Harper & Row, 263 pp., $12.95
Nietzsche's Gift
by Harold Alderman
Ohio University Press, 184 pp., $5.50 (paper)
Friedrich Nietzsche
by J.P. Stern
Penguin (Modern Masters series), 175 pp., $3.95 (paper)
David Krell, in a note to his translation of Heidegger's lectures on Nietzsche, describes the changing history of Nietzsche's image. This strange genius, who believed he could destroy all previous philosophies, was first seen primarily as a poet and essayist; then as a legendary and tragic symbol of the times; and only later as a serious philosopher.
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