Human, All-Too-Human is a collection of aphorisms by Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1878. In short, pointed sections it examines the origins of moral feelings, religion, art, culture, society and the state from the perspective of a 'free spirit.' It is worth hearing for its sharp insights into human habits and values.
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Opening of the book
HUMAN ALL-TOO-HUMAN A BOOK FOR FREE SPIRITS PART I By FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE TRANSLATED BY HELEN ZIMMERN WITH INTRODUCTION BY J. M. KENNEDY The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche The First Complete and Authorised English Translation Edited by Dr Oscar Levy Volume Six T.N. FOULIS 13 & 15 FREDERICK STREET
EDINBURGH: AND LONDON
1909
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
FIRST DIVISION: FIRST AND LAST THINGS
SECOND DIVISION: THE HISTORY OF THE MORAL SENTIMENT
THIRD DIVISION: THE RELIGIOUS LIFE
FOURTH DIVISION: CONCERNING THE SOUL OF ARTISTS AND AUTHORS
FIFTH DIVISION: THE SIGNS OF HIGHER AND LOWER CULTURE
SIXTH DIVISION: MAN IN SOCIETY
SEVENTH DIVISION: WIFE AND CHILD
EIGHTH DIVISION: A GLANCE AT THE STATE
AN EPODE—AMONG FRIENDS
INTRODUCTION.
Nietzsche's essay, Richard Wagner in Bayreuth, appeared in 1876, and his next publication was his present work, which was issued in 1878.
A comparison of the books will show that the two years of meditation intervening had brought about a great change in Nietzsche's views, his style of expressing them, and the form in which they were cast. The
Dionysian, overflowing with life, gives way to an Apollonian thinker with a touch of pessimism. The long essay form is abandoned, and instead we have a series of aphorisms, some tinged with melancholy, others with satire, several, especially towards the end, with
Nietzschian wit at its best, and a few at the beginning so very abstruse as to require careful study.
Since the Bayreuth festivals of 1876, Nietzsche had gradually come to see Wagner as he really was. The ideal musician that Nietzsche had pictured in his own mind turned out to be nothing more than a rather dilettante philosopher, an opportunistic decadent with a suspicious
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