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Third printing 1998 New material this edition copyright 1993 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Originally published in 1913 by Luce and Company.
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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 92-34210 ISBN: 1-56000-649-8 Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 18801956. [Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche] Friedrich Nietzche/H.L. Mencken; with a new introduction by Richard Flathman p. cm. Originally published: Boston: Luce and Co., 1913. Includes index. 1. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 18441900. I. Title. B3317.M5 1993 92-34210 193dc20 CIP
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CONTENTS
Introduction to the Transaction Edition
vii
Preface
xli
Nietzsche the Man Chapter
I. Boyhood and Youth
3
II. The Beginnings of the Philosopher
16
III. Blazing a New Path
27
IV. The Prophet of the Superman
40
V. The Philosopher and the Man
50
Nietzsche the Philosopher
I. Dionysus vs. Apollo
63
II. The Origin of Morality
74
III. Beyond Good and Evil
88
IV. The Superman
100
V. Eternal Recurrence
117
VI. Christianity
126
VII. Truth
147
VIII. Civilization
162
IX. Women and Marriage
174
X. Government
192
XI. Crime and Punishment
208
XII. Education
216
XIII. Sundry Ideas
226
XIV. Nietzsche vs. Wagner
242
Nietzsche The Prophet
I. Nietzsche's Origins
255
II. Nietzsche and His Critics
268
How to Study Nietzsche
290
Index
297
Page vii
INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION
A crusty curmudgeon constructively critiquing a cantankerous crank. A sardonic skeptic circulating the atavistic animosities of an irreverent antinomian. An arrogant elitist applauding the pseudo-aristocratic snarlings of a soon-to-be psychotic snob.
Not so many years ago, when Nietzsche was widely regarded as a progenitor and Mencken an apologist for the worst evils of this and hence of any other century, the first two of these characterizations of this book might have been thought too generous, the third regarded as the least of the condemnations the book deserves and of the neglect it has for some time been receiving. If anti-Nietzscheans have since promoted their bte-noire (or bte-blond) from proto-Nazi to nihilist post-modernist, if anti-Menckenians have reduced their charge from racist to reactionary, it is not unlikely that some will prefer that at least this among the attempts to champion Nietzsche's thinking, at least these among Mencken's hundreds of thousands of published words, would remain in the decent repose of rare book rooms. There are, how-
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