> Skip to content
  • Published: 2 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241251850
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 64
  • RRP: $9.99

Why I Am so Clever




46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946

Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether?

  • Published: 2 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241251850
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 64
  • RRP: $9.99

Other books in the series

Lady Susan

About the author

Friedrich Nietzsche

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later.

Known for saying that 'god is dead,' Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended.

Also by Friedrich Nietzsche

See all