What Nietzsche Really Said Paperback by Mazzino Montinari

Product Details

• Publisher: Verso (2026-11-03)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 208 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781804295014
• Item Weight: 198.45 grams
• Dimensions: 20.9 x 13.94 x 1.24 cm

A LUCID, BALANCED INTRODUCTION TO NIETZSCHE’S LIFE AND THOUGHT

Translated into English for the first time, Mazzino Montinari’s classic introduction to Nietzsche is remarkable for its clarity, precision, and critical depth. What Nietzsche Really Said dismantles myths that have long distorted the philosopher’s legacy, from fascist appropriations to doctrinaire readings by self-styled Nietzscheans.

Montinari captures Nietzsche as a restless critical thinker whose reflections on modernity, power, and culture unfolded through a lifelong process of questioning and revision.

About the Author

"Mazzino Montinari (1928–1986) was an Italian philologist and leading Nietzsche scholar. Best known for his collaboration with Giorgio Colli on the critical edition of Nietzsche’s works, Montinari dedicated his career to restoring Nietzsche’s writings to their authentic form, free from distortions by Nazi and doctrinaire interpretations.

Peter J. Schwartz is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature and Film in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Boston University. His work turns primarily on matters of verbal and visual expression, social and aesthetic distinction, cultural history and morphology, and media archaeology. He is the author of After Jena: Goethe's Elective Affinities and the End of the Old Regime (2010), co-editor of Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki's Global Video Project (2021), and translator of André Jolles's Simple Forms (Verso, 2017) and Mazzino Montinari's What Nietzsche Really Said: A Reader's Guide (Verso, 2026)."