Magnum in parvo: A philosophy in compendium

Magnum in Parvo: A Philosophy in Compendium (1888), in German Magnum in parvo: Eine Philosophie im Auszug, is a project of work of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) conceived in Sils Maria, Switzerland, at the end of August 1888, the last summer of his lucid life.^[1][2][3][4]

This is a book that the Röcken philosopher planned as a rigorous and precise synthesis of his ill-fated capital project The Will to Power and in which the key themes of his thought are addressed. However, a sudden change of opinion in a context of growing mental excitement prior to Nietzsche's near psychophysical collapse 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: Twilight of the Idols (1889) and The Antichrist (1894).^[5][6][7]

In 2024, professor Joaquín Riera Ginestar ^[8] translated, wrote the prologue and annotated the first known edition of Magnum in Parvo (Alianza Editorial, 2024).^[9] For the scientific reconstruction of the work as Nietzsche designed it, professor Riera used the posthumous fragments ^[10][11] and the original Nietzschean manuscripts,^[12] studied, systematized and critically edited by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari.^[13][14][15]

Magnum in Parvo edition (also available in English) ^[16] represents the recovery of a work of notable philosophical and literary value, more complete, overall, than the two books into which it was dissolved, since it allows clear, synthetic and profound access to key concepts of mature Nietzschean thought such as the death of God, nihilism, Übermensch, eternal return and amor fati.^[17]