The Will to Power

The Will to Power (German: "Der Wille zur Macht") is the title given to a book of selectively reordered notes (with a few revisionist additions and changes) from the notebooks (or Nachlass) of Friedrich Nietzsche by his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Heinrich Köselitz ("Peter Gast"). The Will to Power is also the title of a work that Nietzsche had considered writing, but later abandoned in favor of Revaluation of All Values, which Nietzsc... more

The Will to Power (German: "Der Wille zur Macht") is the title given to a book of selectively reordered notes (with a few revisionist additions and changes) from the notebooks (or Nachlass) of Friedrich Nietzsche by his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Heinrich Köselitz ("Peter Gast"). The Will to Power is also the title of a work that Nietzsche had considered writing, but later abandoned in favor of Revaluation of All Values, which Nietzsche was unable to complete. The first rendition of this collection was released with other unpublished writings in 1901, edited by Heinrich Köselitz, Ernst Horneffer, and August Horneffer, under the influence of Nietzsche's anti-Semitic sister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. This version has been judged more than dubious, and later editions are considered more subtle in their presentation of Nietzsche's intent. Walter Kaufmann's English edition is divided into four major parts: "European Nihilism", "Critique of the Highest Values Hitherto", ... less