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Approaching the writing of major intellectuals artists and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction--a personal master class in reading--that brings you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history. In lucid accessible language these books explain essential topics such as Nietzsches thinking on beauty truth and memory.Nietzsches thinking revolves around a new and striking concept of humanitya humanity that has come to terms with the death of God and practices the art and science of living well free of the need for metaphysical certainties and moral absolutes. How then are we to live? And what do we love?Keith Ansell Pearson introduces the reader to Nietzsches distinctive philosophical style and to the development of his thought. Through a series of close readings of Nietzsches aphorisms he illuminates some of his best-known but often ill-understood ideas including eternal recurrence and the superman and he brings to light the challenging nature of Nietzsches thinking on key topics such as beauty truth and memory. Extracts are taken from a range of Nietzsches work including Human All Too Human; The Gay Science; Thus Spoke Zarathustra; and On the Genealogy of Morality.