Friedrich Nietzsche: Difference between revisions

[[Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche]] compiled ''[[The Will to Power (manuscript)|The Will to Power]]'' from Nietzsche's unpublished notebooks and published it posthumously in 1901. Because his sister arranged the book based on her own conflation of several of Nietzsche's early outlines and took liberties with the material, the scholarly consensus has been that it does not reflect Nietzsche's intent. (For example, Elisabeth removed aphorism 35 of ''The Antichrist'', where Nietzsche rewrote a passage of the Bible.) Indeed, [[Mazzino Montinari]], the editor of Nietzsche's ''[[Nachlass]]'', called it a forgery.<ref>{{cite book |last=Montinari |first=Mazzino |author-link=Mazzino Montinari |title=The 'Will to Power' Does Not Exist}}</ref> Yet, the endeavour to rescue Nietzsche's reputation by discrediting ''The Will to Power'' often leads to scepticism about the value of his late notes, even of his whole ''Nachlass''. However, his ''Nachlass'' and ''The Will to Power'' are distinct.<ref name=":3" /> In 2024, thanks to the critical work of [[Giorgio Colli]] and [[Mazzino Montinari]], the Spanish scholar and professor Joaquín Riera Ginestar reconstructed [[''Magnum in parvo: A philosophy in compendium'']] (1888), in German ''Magnum in parvo: Eine Philosophie im Auszug'', a project of work of Nietzsche conceived in Sils Maria at the end of August 1888, the last summer of his lucid life, as a rigorous and precise synthesis of his ill-fated capital project [[''The Will to Power'']] and in which the key themes of his thought are addressed. In this respect it can be considered that this "lost" work of the late Nietzsche is a unique and key text within his philosophical creation because it allows to access in a clear, synthetic and at the same time profound way to the heart of the often unsystematic, fragmented and abstruse thought of the German genius.