On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings

“We continue to live within the intellectual shadow cast by Nietzsche.”—New York Times Book Review

Reissued for the age of "fake news," On Truth and Untruth charts Nietzsche’s evolving thinking on truth, which has exerted a powerful influence over modern and contemporary thought. This original collection features the complete text of the celebrated early essay “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense” (”a keystone in Nietzsche’s thought”—Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy), as well as selections from the great philosopher’s entire career, including key passages from The Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Will to Power, Twilight of the Idols, and The Antichrist.

In times of crisis, the great works of philosophy help us make sense of the world. The Harper Perennial Resistance Library is a special five-book series highlighting short classic works of independent thought that illuminate the nature of truth, humanity's dangerous attraction to authoritarianism, the influence of media and mass communication, and the philosophy of resistance—all critical in understanding today's politically charged world.

“The greatest philosopher of late modernity.” - Foreign Affairs

“One of the most disturbing and influential thinkers of modern times.” - Economist

“Nietzsche is the most influential of the great philosophers and the ‘patron saint of postmodernism,’” - Simon Blackburn, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge

“Scholars regard Nietzsche’s 1873 unpublished essay, On Truth and Lies as a keystone in his thought.” - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy