Will to Power (Attempt to Re-evaluate All Values)

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (German), translated by Zhang Nandong and Ling Suxin
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Publish Date: 1996-04-01
Features: Nietzsche asserted that the will to power is the sole absolute driving force governing the world and human behavior, and life is the pursuit of the will to power. To understand the great essence of Nietzsche's philosophical thought, The Will to Power is indispensable. Like Marx and Freud, Nietzsche was a thinker who profoundly influenced the spiritual life of the 20th century. In 2000, on the centennial of Nietzsche's death, the Chinese publishing and reading communities once again focused on Nietzsche and his works. Nietzsche was a significant German philosopher in the late 19th century and one of the main representatives of voluntarism. Influenced by certain aspects of the theory of survival competition, he developed Schopenhauer's will to life into the will to power and proposed the theory of the übermensch, thereby giving voluntarism a Social Darwinist content. Philosophically, he became a precursor to Diltheye's life philosophy and Spengler's philosophy of history, and he had a profound impact on important 20th-century Western philosophical schools such as pragmatism and existentialism. This book expresses Nietzsche's theory of the will to power and the theory of the übermensch, making it one of his main representative works. The Will to Power represents Nietzsche's late philosophical thought and is his most influential philosophical work. The essence of Nietzsche's philosophy lies in the reevaluation of all values, and his "will" is all-encompassing. Just as "Germany is above all," both his brilliance and darkness are tied to this will, which is also antidialectical. Nietzsche asserted that the will to power is the sole absolute driving force governing the world and human behavior, and life is the pursuit of the will to power. To understand the great essence of Nietzsche's philosophical thought, The Will to Power is indispensable.
The Will to Power emphasizes the abundance and excess of life in nature. He believed that the world is not a negative process of all things struggling for survival, but an active process of all things striving for the expansion of life force. Nietzsche linked aesthetic phenomena to the intensity of life force. He argued that the "will to power" creates the strongest individuals, enabling them to shatter all deceptive, sickly, and life-hating aspects of society. To break with the old and establish the new, he advocated "the reevaluation of all values."