Human, All Too Human

Human, All Too Human

Title page of first edition.
Author	Friedrich Nietzsche
Original title	Menschliches, Allzumenschliches: Ein Buch für freie Geister
Translator	Alexander Harvey (1st edition)[1]
Language	German
Published	April 1878 (first part) (Ernst Schmeitzner)[2]
Publication place	Germany
Published in English	1908[1]
Pages	182 pp
OCLC	3359010
LC Class	B3313.M53[1]
Preceded by	Untimely Meditations (1873–1876)
Followed by	The Dawn (1881)
Text	Human, All Too Human at Wikisource

Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (German: Menschliches, Allzumenschliches: Ein Buch für freie Geister) is a book by 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1878. A second part, Assorted Opinions and Maxims (Vermischte Meinungen und Sprüche), was published in 1879, and a third part, The Wanderer and his Shadow (Der Wanderer und sein Schatten), followed in 1880.^[3]

The book is Nietzsche's first in the aphoristic style that would come to dominate his writings, discussing a variety of concepts in short paragraphs or sayings. Reflecting an admiration of Voltaire as a free thinker, but also a break in his friendship with composer Richard Wagner two years earlier, Nietzsche dedicated the original 1878 edition of Human, All Too Human "to the memory of Voltaire on the celebration of the anniversary of his death, May 30, 1778". Instead of a preface, the first part originally included a quotation from Descartes's Discourse on the Method. Nietzsche later republished all three parts as a two-volume edition in 1886, adding a preface to each volume, and removing the Descartes quotation as well as the dedication to Voltaire.