<b>This captivating collection brings together five of Friedrich Nietzche's most important philosophical works exploring themes such as nihilism metaphysics and the nature of morality--featuring an introduction by Peter Gay and commentary from Martin Heidegger Albert Camus and Gilles Deleuze</b> <p/>More than one hundred years after his death Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. <i>Basic Writings of Nietzsche</i> gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works from his first book to his last: <i>The Birth of Tragedy Beyond Good and Evil On the Genealogy of Morals The Case of Wagner </i>and <i>Ecce Homo</i>. <p/>Edited and translated by the great Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann this volume also features seventy-five aphorisms selections from Nietzsche's correspondence and variants from drafts for <i>Ecce Homo</i>. It is a definitive guide to the full range of Nietzsche's thought. <p/><b>This edition includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide</b>