Basic Writings (International Nietzsche Studies)

by Paul Ree and Robin Small

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This book contains the first English translations of The Origin of the Moral Sensations and Psychological Observations, the two most important works by the German philosopher Paul Rée. These essays present Rée’s moral philosophy, which influenced the ideas of his close friend Friedrich Nietzsche considerably.
 
Nietzsche scholars have often incorrectly attributed to him arguments and ideas that are Rée’s and have failed to detect responses to Rée’s works in Nietzsche’s writings. Rée’s thinking combined two strands: a pessimistic conception of human nature, presented in the French moralists’ aphoristic style that would become a mainstay of Nietzsche’s own writings,...Read more
  • ISBN10 025202818X
  • ISBN13 9780252028182
  • Publish Date 9 June 2003 (first published 1 January 2003)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Illinois Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 240
  • Language English