Talk:Magnum in parvo: A philosophy in compendium

I'm glad this page exists, but it reads like a press release or back cover blurb. Can someone who has read the work take a look?174.16.109.102 (talk) 02:49, 9 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Agreed. This page is an advertisement for a very problematic project. The supposed "lost book" of Nietzsche, Magnum in parvo: A philosophy in compendium, is and was no book at all. The author of the Wikipedia page admits this fact when s/he writes, "However, a sudden change of opinion...determined that this unique work was finally published not in the planned unitary form, but dissolved and mixed with other materials in two different books." That's how it was with ALL of Nietzsche's works. He tried out ideas and even wrote rough outlines like the present "compendium," constantly in his notebooks. Some of these ideas and plans came to fruition in his books. To cut to the chase, Magnum in parvo is similar to Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche's ransacking of her brother's notebooks to manipulate his words into another "lost book" that never existed, namely, The Will to Power. Nietzsche himself warned against such projects: “The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.” Eliswinterabend (talk) 13:05, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, we've been discussion the deletion to this articles' German counterpart for almost a month now. Have you, perchance, found any relevant reviews that would help to decided if this Reconstruction is accepted by the relevant scientific community yet? Kind regards Leif Czerny (talk) 16:40, 28 June 2024 (UTC)