Abstract

Conceived in the last days of August 1888 - the last summer of his lucid life -, "Magnum in parvo: A philosophy in compendium" is the work that Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) projected as a synthesis of his ill-fated capital project "The will to power" and in which the key themes of his thought are addressed. Although a sudden change of opinion determined that this unique work saw the light not in the planned unitary form, but dissolved in two different books: "Twilight of the Idols" (1889) and "The Antichrist" (1894). This edition reconstructs, from the posthumous fragments and the original Nietzschean manuscripts, the work as Nietzsche designed it, thus recovering a piece of notable philosophical and literary value, more rounded, overall, than what His two offspring would become.