The three works in this collection, all dating from Nietzsches last lucid months, show him at his most stimulating and controversial the portentous utterances of the prophet together with the ill-defined figure of the UEbermensch are forsaken, as wit, exuberance and dazzling insights predominate, forcing the reader to face unpalatable insights and to rethink every commonly accepted truth. Thinking with Nietzsche, in Jaspers words, means holding ones own against him, and we are indeed refreshed and c