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Books by Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher, classical philologist, and cultural critic who held the chair of classical philology at Basel before poor health forced his resignation. On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is his most rigorously argued work, written as a companion to Beyond Good and Evil. His other major works include The Birth of Tragedy, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and The Gay Science. He suffered a mental collapse in Turin in January 1889 and remained incapacitated until his death in 1900. His sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche's misleading editorial work contributed to the early fascist appropriation of his thought.