Nietzsche’s Literary Estate
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Abstract
Nietzsche’s world-view has been called “a system in aphorisms.”1 However, general agreement as to the nature of this system does not exist, due partly to the aphoristic genre itself. In fact, unanimity as to whether Nietzsche did in fact have a system does not exist either.2 In consequence, the meaning and importance attributed to the major themes within Nietzsche’s alleged system — overman, revaluation of values, the will-to-power, the eternal recurrence — have been the subject of spirited and prolonged debate.
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References
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- 18.That Nietzsche had abandoned plans for The Will-to-Power has become a commonplace since first publicized by Walter A. Kaufmann in his Nietzsche (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950). The Musarionausgabe of Nietzsche’s collected works contains over twenty-five plans for the disputed The Will-to-Power (cf. XVIII, 335–361), as well as indications that Nietzsche intended to write a major work entitled Revaluation of all Values instead, whose first part was to have been the already published The Antichrist, (cf. Musarionausgabe XVIII, 347 and XIX, 390–402).Google Scholar
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