Publisher's Synopsis
The publication of Human, all-too-Human extends over the period 1878-1880. Of the two divisions which consti-tute the Second Part, "Miscellaneous Maxims and Opi-nions" appeared in 1879, and "The Wanderer and his Shadow" in 1880, Nietzsche being then in his thirty-sixth year. The Preface was added in 1886. The whole book forms Nietzsche's first lengthy contribution to literature. His previous works comprise only the philological treati-ses, The Birth of Tragedy, and the essays on Strauss, Scho-penhauer, and Wagner in Thoughts out of Season.With the volumes of Human, all-too-Human Nietzsche appears for the first time in his true colours as philosop-her. His purely scholarly publications, his essays in lite-rary and musical criticism-especially the essay on Ric-hard Wagner at Bayreuth-had, of course, foreshadowed his work as a thinker.
