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The Will to Power (Penguin Classics) Translation Edition, Kindle Edition

by Friedrich Nietzsche (Author), Michael A. Scarpitti (Translator), R. Kevin Hill (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition
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The will to power is a prominent concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. The will to power describes what Nietzsche may have believed to be the main driving force in humans - achievement, ambition, and the striving to reach the highest possible position in life. These are all manifestations of the will to power; however, the concept was never systematically defined in Nietzsche's work, leaving its interpretation open to debate.
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    January 19, 2018
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selection from Nietzche's notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others.

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Represents a selection from Nietzche's notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07943HGXT
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics; Translation edition (January 19, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 19, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 820 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 190 pages
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Clarity on the Completeness of the Vintage Press
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Clarity on the Completeness of the Vintage Press
NOTE: This is not an analysis of the text, but a quick review of this particular version “The Will to Power.”Some reviewers are mentioning that certain paperbacks of “The Will to Power” are not the complete version and are only half of the original. This is true of the Dover paperback print, but NOT true for the Vintage Books print.This version is nicely sized and the paper is of good quality imo. It is edited by the well respected translator Walter Kaufmann, who is arguably the best translator for Nietzsche. This particular version was also translated with R.J. Hollingdale, another respected translator of Nietzsche. This version of the work is edited by Kaufmann, and honestly after reading pieces of “The Basic Writings of Nietzsche” (also edited by him), I feel this this should absolutely be recommended amongst those interested in “The Will to Power.” It is probably the best version available currently.I hope this was informative.
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Raul V. Campos Garcia
5.0 out of 5 stars Frases de filosofia
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2024
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La perla en el libro dice textual:

"Todo lo que todo el mundo quiere: Es un poco más de poder!"

Federico N.
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Aran Joseph Canes
5.0 out of 5 stars Nietzsche Builds a Temple of Horror
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2022
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The Will to Power is, when read closely, one of the scariest texts of philosophy you will ever read. It’s not because of the Nietzchean Superman; similar things had been said long ago by Machiavelli. It’s also not that Nietzsche was unable to complete the book because of the loss of his mind; though indications of this can be seen in parts of the text.

No, it’s that Nietzsche is one of the first writers to argue that the goal of the mind is not to seek the truth. He begins with their being no such thing as a thing-in-itself and then builds to a crescendo in declaring that even the law of non-contradiction is false.

For Nietzsche, Bacon’s “knowledge is power” then takes on a new and dangerous meaning. It’s that the human brain does nothing more than seek to establish power over a chaotic world by building sciences, logics and moralities. All of it has no necessary connection with understanding the world—it’s just a means of asserting one species’ power over other life. If an alien species had intelligence there’s no reason to think it would agree with anything we have discovered at all.

In the twentieth century, of course, this became less and less believable. Einstein was known to ponder why the mind could construct mathematics that so ably modeled the universe; but he didn’t think that it didn’t model the universe at all.

Personally, I think it’s somewhat absurd to realize that humankind can send a probe to Mars that lands with a sensitivity of inches and then say that all of our “knowledge” is just an assertion of brute force over chaos. Even so, I recognize the influence this thought has held on such able philosophers as Derrida and Foucault.

Moreover, far from being merely a text in the history of ideas, The Will to Power is one of the most frightening portrayals of the human condition ever expressed. For those with enough confidence in the intellect not to fall for its conclusions, The Will to Power represents an apogee in the effort to provide an account asserting humanity’s fundamental irrationality. Highly recommended.
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lisagat
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting read
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2024
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This book really makes you think and see the world from different perspectives. It’s easy to get lost so I’m reading just a little at a time and taking a moment to process and appreciate the values.
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Luke E. Smith
4.0 out of 5 stars A masterwork made more accessible
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2018
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I initially read Walter Kaufmann’s version, which is extremely scrupulous in its details. The translation however, was a bit outdated. This book’s translation is more up to date and easy to read for a young person, but lacks footnotes/translations of figures of speech - most of which are French. Nietzsche knew language very well. I don’t like the lack of footnotes, as some passages entirely in French would require a dictionary or manual input to google translate. For the layperson who isn’t particularity concerned about these details though, it’s not a big deal. The book is a complication of notes anyway, making it necessarily disordered.
Despite these details, having Nietzsche’s last years of work accessible in a book like this is a pleasure. You can flip into a page, and immediately have a taste of the man’s thoughts at the moment he wrote them, about 140 years ago. Incisive, vicious, and starkly intelligent, his ideas give me conviction and reinforce many of my own ideas about how the world works. I wouldn’t pass up the opportunity to add this to your collection, despite the risk of one of your more enlightened friends dismissing it as childish, or whatever else. You probably shouldn’t be talking to those people anyway.
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Zac Moretz
5.0 out of 5 stars Power up! Excellent version
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2024
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Don't waste your time buying any Nietzsche translation that is not by Walter Kaufmann. Make sure if you are buying Nietzsche, you are buying the his translations. This is perfect and has lots of explanatory information from him, the world's foremost Nietzsche scholar.
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Michael C
5.0 out of 5 stars Clarity on the Completeness of the Vintage Press
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2020
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NOTE: This is not an analysis of the text, but a quick review of this particular version “The Will to Power.”

Some reviewers are mentioning that certain paperbacks of “The Will to Power” are not the complete version and are only half of the original. This is true of the Dover paperback print, but NOT true for the Vintage Books print.

This version is nicely sized and the paper is of good quality imo. It is edited by the well respected translator Walter Kaufmann, who is arguably the best translator for Nietzsche. This particular version was also translated with R.J. Hollingdale, another respected translator of Nietzsche. This version of the work is edited by Kaufmann, and honestly after reading pieces of “The Basic Writings of Nietzsche” (also edited by him), I feel this this should absolutely be recommended amongst those interested in “The Will to Power.” It is probably the best version available currently.

I hope this was informative.
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Michael C
5.0 out of 5 stars Clarity on the Completeness of the Vintage Press
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2020
NOTE: This is not an analysis of the text, but a quick review of this particular version “The Will to Power.”

Some reviewers are mentioning that certain paperbacks of “The Will to Power” are not the complete version and are only half of the original. This is true of the Dover paperback print, but NOT true for the Vintage Books print.

This version is nicely sized and the paper is of good quality imo. It is edited by the well respected translator Walter Kaufmann, who is arguably the best translator for Nietzsche. This particular version was also translated with R.J. Hollingdale, another respected translator of Nietzsche. This version of the work is edited by Kaufmann, and honestly after reading pieces of “The Basic Writings of Nietzsche” (also edited by him), I feel this this should absolutely be recommended amongst those interested in “The Will to Power.” It is probably the best version available currently.

I hope this was informative.
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Tom Hartford
5.0 out of 5 stars Nietzsche very handsome therefore good book
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2022
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I read in one night and saw hawk fly across skies at sunrise? Wat means? Dumbs give one star because ressentiment of Nietzsche smarts and handsome good looks - they want ugly friend with stale coffee breath like Sartre. This book add 50lbs to max bench press. Next edition I like to see tanned muscular Nietzsche surfing Hawaiian wave for cover art.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2017
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I just finished reading this and my perspective and beliefs on life and the afterlife have forever been altered. This can easily be the most groundbreaking work ever written in philosophy and is guaranteed to reshape your deepest and fundamental beliefs on religion and philosophy. One of the challenges of this book is following the author's thought process, which is strenuous at times due to the nature of the text which are the notes from Nietzsche's journal and unfortunately they were never revised, so at times the passages seem disconnected and disorganized. With that aside, Nietzsche introduces and elaborates on countless thought provoking concepts that will challenge the opinions of yourself and prior philosophers before him.
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Jesus Jorge de Felipe
1.0 out of 5 stars Texto sin editar que resulta ilegible
Reviewed in Spain on February 2, 2023
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Cada vez aparecen en Amazon más oportunistas que ponen textos de autores de referencia copiados de cualquier manera de algún sitio y se limitan a pegarlos en kindle a bajo precio y hacer así un miserable negocio con los incautos. Negocio también para Amazon, que tampoco supervisa ni gestiona los abusos frecuentes en las referencias y calidad de los libros que se venden en su plataforma.
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Sapio
5.0 out of 5 stars Will to Power
Reviewed in India on April 11, 2021
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This book lights up other side of life it Talks about most popular critiques about Philosophy by prominent authors like Plato, kant, schenoper . If you have alot of confusins ,Go for it , this will confuse you more & you will be okay with it .
Best part I prefer in this book was It's Critique of Morality concldes with no morality .
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Eamon McDermott
1.0 out of 5 stars Incomplete edition taken from Project Gutenberg
Reviewed in France on November 9, 2018
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Ends at section 465.
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Vahid Bokharaie
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece!
Reviewed in Germany on November 26, 2018
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'nough said!
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S. Modarres
1.0 out of 5 stars Kindle version is all messed up
Reviewed in Australia on March 8, 2024
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The words are mashed together frequently in the kindle version, it's unreadable.
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