The Will to Power Paperback – August 12, 1968

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.

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.

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.

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 The translation however, was a bit outdated.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.

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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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.

Much of the formatting throughout the book make the text illegible. It shouldn't even be available on Kindle in this state.