The Will to Power Author:Friedrich Nietzsche The Will to Power, compiled from the notebooks for Friedrich Nietzsche, is one of the most famous books of the past hundred years, but few have studied it. Here, at last, is the first critical edition in any language. — Down through the Nazi period The Will to Power was often mistakenly considered to be Nietzsche's crowning systematic labor; sin... more »ce World War II it has frequently been denigrated, just as fallaciously, as being not worth reading. In fact, it represents a stunning selection from Neitzsche's notebooks, in a topical arrangement that enables the reader to find what Niezsche wrote on nihilism, morality, religion, the theory of knowledge, and whatever else interested him. But no precious edition- even in the original German- shows which notes Niezsche utilized subsequently in his works, and which sections are not paralleled in the finished books. Nor has any previous edition furnished a commentary or index.« less