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Werke
Friedrich Nietzsche · 1896
An early German collected edition of Nietzsche's complete works, including Also sprach Zarathustra.
This collected edition presents Nietzsche's own writings in German, gathered after his death.
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What it is
This is a volume from Nietzsche's Werke, a German collected edition of his writings published in 1896, including works such as Die Geburt der Tragödie and Also sprach Zarathustra. It survives as a digitized scan.
Why it matters
This edition gathers Nietzsche's major works together in his own language, shortly after his death, showing how his writings were organized and preserved for later readers and scholars.
Look closer
- Why might publishers have grouped all of Nietzsche's works into one numbered set?
- What does the inclusion of a facsimile of a manuscript page add to a printed book?
- How might reading these works in German differ from reading them in translation?
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