《查拉图斯特拉如是说》是尼采假借查拉图斯特拉之名说出他自己的哲学思想，也可以说是一本查拉图斯特拉的说教集或者说是查拉图斯特拉的行藏录，又有点像圣者传一类的书，但这位圣者并不是宗教的圣者，而且本书并不像一般宗教书那样枯燥乏味，却是具有极高文学价值的散文诗。 《查拉图斯特拉如是说》是尼采的里程碑式的作品，几乎包括了尼采的全部思想。全书以汪洋恣肆的诗体写成，熔酒神的狂醉与日神的清醒于一炉，通过“超人”查拉图斯特拉之口宣讲未来世界的启示，在世界哲学史和诗歌史上均占有独特的不朽的地位。

本书论述了道德观念产生的自然、社会、生理甚至病理条件,发掘了人们在不同时期、不同条件下创造不同价值判断的共同的原始动力。

《善恶的彼岸》于1885年夏动笔，翌年冬完成。尼采在该书中力图界定“善”与“恶”这两个相对的词，为图区分道德和非道德。他察觉到人们为使古代道德准则和现代人的需要相一致所做的努力，是有矛盾的，认识到人们经常在道德理论和社会实践之间做出妥协。他的目的是确立道德与需要之间的关系，为人类行为构造一个可操作的基础，所以，《善恶的彼岸》是尼采对一种新道德体系做出的最重要的贡献之一，触及了其哲学的许多最深层的原理。

瓦格纳在很大程度上是尼采的引路人，一度是亲密的“战友”，后来又是尼采树立起来的主要“对手”。从 “战友”到“对手”，瓦格纳伴随尼采思想生涯的始终。尼采对瓦格纳所做的最后的清算是在1888年，是他思想生涯的最后一年，在一年内完成了《瓦格纳事件》《尼采反瓦格纳》两本著作。字里行间充满着尼采对瓦格纳深具匠心的哲学洞察。本书特将这两种著作结集出版，为读者研究提供方便。

"[This book] mirrors all of Nietzsche's thought and could be related in hundreds of ways to his other books, his notes, and his letters. And yet it is complete in itself. For it is a work of art." —Walter Kaufmann in the Introduction Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God—to which a large part of the book is devoted—and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence. Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with its many quotations from previously untranslated letters, brings to life Nietzsche as a human being and illuminates his philosophy. The book contains some of Nietzsche's most sustained discussions of art and morality, knowledge and truth, the intellectual conscience and the origin of logic. Most of the book was written just before Thus Spoke Zarathustra , the last part five years later, after Beyond Good and Evil . We encounter Zarathustra in these pages as well as many of Nietzsche's most interesting philosophical ideas and the largest collection of his own poetry that he himself ever published. Walter Kaufmann's English versions of Nietzsche represent one of the major translation enterprises of our time. He is the first philosopher to have translated Nietzsche's major works, and never before has a single translator given us so much of Nietzsche.

The great philosopher's major work on ethics, along with ECCE HOMO, Nietzche's remarkable review of his life and works. Translated by Walter Kaufmann.

The four short works in Untimely Meditations were published by Nietzsche between 1873 and 1876.They deal with such broad topics as the relationship between popular and genuine culture, strategies for cultural reform, the task of philosophy, the nature of education, and the relationship between art, science and life. They also include Nietzsche's earliest statement of his own understanding of human selfhood as a process of endlessly 'becoming who one is'. As Daniel Breazeale shows in his introduction to this new edition of R. J. Hollingdale's translation of the essays, these four early texts are key documents for understanding the development of Nietzsche's thought and clearly anticipate many of the themes of his later writings. Nietzsche himself always cherished his Untimely Meditations and believed that they provide valuable evidence of his 'becoming and self-overcoming' and constitute a 'public pledge' concerning his own distinctive task as a philosopher.

One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner; and Ecce Homo. Edited and translated by the great Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, this volume provides a definitive guide to the full range of Nietzsche's thought. Included also are seventy-five aphorisms, selections from Nietzsche's correspondence, and variants from drafts for Ecce Homo. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Nietzsche proposes in "Beyond Good and Evil" a system of inquiry and analysis known by the phrase 'history as critique.' This straightforward manner of investigation leads Nietzsche to question all of culture's most venerated conventions: science, religion, politics, decency and linguistic stock. He begins this process by overriding tradition when he says "only that which has no history can be defined." An explanation of virtue, for example, can only be written when the defintion eludes all possible requisites of custom and habit. We cannot properly administer the philosophical aspects of morality except through divine direction, suspicion, or an unexamined dependence on tradition. Because of this, Nietzsche calls to question the foundational premise that it is best for human beings to seek the truth. How do we know that mendacity isn't better? What is truth, anyway? He disputes the intention of the traditional esoteric venture. He unburdens all sources of cultural incontestability and claims to fixed truth which empties them of their value: "...we modern men, like semi-barbarians...reach 'our' bliss only when we are most in danger." Since we are in a process of perpetual adaptation we cannot be defined by any indigenous quality. Instead of adopting a class consciousness for purposes of easy identification Nietzsche asks that we establish an amplified sense of responsibility to our own luxurious creativity. He declares there is a higher calling: an unassisted life of intense but private joy, anguish, fortitude, perception, and constructive preparation.

尼采的一部主要著作，便是这《苏鲁支语录》，甚为鲁迅所欣赏。鲁迅最初加以翻译，用的是文言，题曰《察罗堵斯德罗绪言》，是第一卷《序言》的前三节。 那译笔古奥得很，似乎是拟《庄子》或《列子》。以原著的思想及文采而论，实在类乎我国古代的“子书”。宋五‘子’尚不在其列。这是华文第一译。后下鲁迅再度翻译，用的是白话，从新开始，止于《序言》的前九节，题曰《察拉斯忒拉的序言》，后附注解，刊于一九二O年六月《新潮》杂志第二卷第五期。此后有郭沫若的译本，题曰《察拉斯屈拉图如是说》，亦止薄薄一本，似是节译。后下鲁迅属徐梵澄将全书四卷译出，交郑振铎出版，时在一九三五。书名乃鲁迅所定，郑振释还作了一页序言，便是书端这序。郑序中说还有楚曾先生的一译本，当时未便出版两种译本，是以未取。此外另有高岸先生的译本，似乎后下皆已行世。那么，此译之外，至少还有两种译本流传。

The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world's leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, 'Few writers in any age were so full of ideas', and few writers have been so consistently misinterpreted. The "Portable Nietzsche" includes Kaufmann's definitive translations of the complete and unabridged texts of Nietzsche's four major works: "Twilight of the Idols", "The Antichrist", "Nietzsche Contra Wagner" and "Thus Spoke Zarathustra". In addition, Kaufmann brings together selections from his other books, notes, and letters, to give a full picture of Nietzsche's development, versatility, and inexhaustibility. 'In this volume, one may very conveniently have a rich review of one of the most sensitive, passionate, and misunderstood writers in Western, or any, literature' - "Newsweek".