Modern Library</br></br>Product Description</br></br><p><b>Introduction by Peter Gay</b><br><b>Translated and edited by Walter Kaufmann </b><br><b>Commentary by Martin Heidegger Albert Camus and Gilles Deleuze</b><br><b>?</b><br>One hundred years after his death Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. <i>Basic Writings of Nietzsche</i> gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsches most important works from his first book to his last: <i>The Birth of Tragedy Beyond Good and Evil On the Genealogy of Morals The Case of Wagner </i>and <i>Ecce Homo</i>. Edited and translated by the great Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann this volume also features seventy-five aphorisms selections from Nietzsches correspondence and variants from drafts for <i>Ecce Homo</i>. It is a definitive guide to the full range of Nietzsches thought.<br>?<br>Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide</p></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>A better title for this book might be <I>The Indispensable Writings of Nietzsche</I>. Indeed the six selections contained in Walter Kaufmann's volume are not only critical elements of Nietzsche's oeuvre they are must-reads for any aspiring student of philosophy. Those coming to Nietzsche for the first time will be pleased to find three of his best-known works--<I>The Birth of Tragedy</I>?? <I>Beyond Good and Evil</I>?? and <I>On the Genealogy of Morals</I>--as well as a collect" of 75 aphorisms drawn from Nietzsche's celebrated aphoristic work. In addition?? there are two lesser known?? but important?? pieces in <I>The Case of Wagner</I> and <I>Ecce Homo</I>. Kaufmann's lucid and accurate translations have been the gold standard of Nietzsche scholarship since the 1950s?? and this volume does not disappoint.<p>  Anyone who has slogged their way through the swamps of German philosophical writing---in Ka