Mazzino Montinari (Book order)

Mazzino Montinari Book order

April 4, 1928 – November 24, 1986

Mazzino Montinari was an Italian philosopher and philologist renowned as one of the foremost editors and interpreters of Friedrich Nietzsche's work. His pivotal contribution involved challenging the authenticity and reliability of published editions of Nietzsche's 'The Will to Power,' which he argued were manipulated and corrupted by his sister and other editors. Montinari's critical studies and translations of Nietzsche's oeuvre significantly advanced the understanding and comprehension of his philosophy. He published his scholarly work with Adelphi and co-founded the international journal Nietzsche-Studien.

Reading Nietzsche

200 pages
7 hours of reading

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An important figure in the development of Nietzsche scholarship, Mazzino Montinari (1928-86) dedicated himself to the detailed study of the philosopher's writings. This lifetime of scholarship crystallized in Montinari's work as coeditor of the critical edition of Nietzsche's collected writings. Reading Nietzsche, now available in English for the first time, is a group of essays that grew out of this monumental work. In Reading Nietzsche Montinari tackles such subjects as the relationship between Nietzsche and Wagner, early drafts of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and the philosopher's reputation among the Nazis and Marxists of the 1930s and 1940s. He also deals authoritatively with a number of figures who have had an unfortunate influence upon the way Nietzsche has been understood, from the chief Nazi interpreter of Nietzsche, Alfred Bäumler, to the chief Marxist interpreter, Georg Lukàcs, to Nietzsche's sister, Elisabeth.