What Nietzsche Really Said: A Reader's Guide by Mazzino, Montinari

What Nietzsche Really Said: A Reader's Guide (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781804295014)

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What Nietzsche Really Said: A Reader's Guide by Mazzino, Montinari

What Nietzsche Really Said: A Reader's Guide

$26.95
What Nietzsche Really Said: A Reader's Guide by Mazzino, Montinari

What Nietzsche Really Said: A Reader's Guide

$26.95
Format: Paperback
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Cutting through decades of ideological distortions, Montinari offers a lucid, balanced, and rigorously researched introduction to Nietzsche's life and thought.

Mazzino Montinari's classic introduction to Nietzscheis remarkable for its clarity, precision, and critical depth translated into English for the first time. The product of years of archival research in Weimar, where Montinari co-edited the definitive edition of Nietzsche's writings with Giorgio Colli, this book dismantles the myths that have long distorted Nietzsche's legacy, from fascist appropriations to doctrinaire readings by self-styled Nietzscheans.Montinari presents Nietzsche not as a system-builder or a prophet of ready-made answers, but as a restless, critical thinker whose reflections on modernity, power, and culture unfolded through a lifelong process of questioning. Rather than offering solutions, Nietzsche delivered a radical diagnosis of Europe's moral, political, and cultural crises--one that remains powerfully relevant today, including for Marxist and critical thought.

A concise yet profound exploration, What Nietzsche Said is essential reading for students, scholars, and anyone seeking a sober, unvarnished understanding of one of modern philosophy's most influential figures

Author: Montinari Mazzino
ISBN-10: 1804295019
ISBN-13: 9781804295014
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 11/03/2026
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
By Montinari Mazzino
By Montinari Mazzino
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Mazzino Montinari (1928-1986) was an Italian philologist and leading Nietzsche scholar. Best known for his collaboration with Giorgio Colli on the critical edition of Nietzsche's works, Montinari dedicated his career to restoring Nietzsche's writings to their authentic form, free from distortions by Nazi and doctrinaire interpretations.

Peter J. Schwartz is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature and Film in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Boston University. His work turns primarily on matters of verbal and visual expression, social and aesthetic distinction, cultural history and morphology, and media archaeology. He is the author of After Jena: Goethe's Elective Affinities and the End of the Old Regime (2010), co-editor of Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki's Global Video Project (2021), and translator of André Jolles's Simple Forms (Verso, 2017) and Mazzino Montinari's What Nietzsche Really Said: A Reader's Guide (Verso, 2026).

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