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Major Works

  • The Birth of Tragedy

    - Die Geburt der Tragödie, Oder: Griechenthum und Pessimismus, 3rd ed., 1886. Recommended translations:
    • The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner, trans. Walter Kaufmann, Random House, 1967.
    • The Birth of Tragedy & The Genealogy of Morals, trans. Francis Golffing, Doubleday, 1956.
    Excerpt: Whatever may be at the bottom of this questionable book, it must have been an exceptionally significant and fascinating question, and deeply personal at that: the time in which it was written, in spite of which it was written, bears witness to… More

  • The Case of Wagner

    - Der Fall Wagner: Ein Musikanten-Problem, 1888. Recommended translation: The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner, trans. Walter Kaufmann, Random House, 1967.
    Excerpt: I am writing this to relieve my mind. It is not malice alone which makes me praise Bizet at the expense of Wagner in this essay. Amid a good deal of jesting I wish to make one point clear which does not admit of levity. To turn my back on Wagner was… More

  • On the Genealogy of Morals

    - Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift, 1887. Recommended translation: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo, trans. Walter Kaufmann, Vintage Books, 1969.
    Excerpt: We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge—and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves—how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be… More

  • Untimely Meditations

    - Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen, 1876. Nietzsche, Friedrich. Untimely Meditations. Edited by Daniel Breazeale. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, 1997.
    Excerpt: “I. David Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer Public opinion in Germany seems almost to forbid discussion of the evil and perilous consequences of a war, and especially of one that has ended victoriously: there is thus all the more ready an… More

  • Human, All Too Human

    - Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, 1878. Recommended translations:
    • Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, trans. Marion Faber, with Stephen Lehmann, with introduction and notes by Marion Faber, University of Nebraska Press, 1984, 1986.
    • Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, 2nd ed., trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
    Excerpt: Often enough, and always with great consternation, people have told me that there is something distinctive in all my writings, from The Birth of Tragedy to the most recently publishedPrologue to a Philosophy of the Future. All of them, I have been… More

  • Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

    - Morgenröte: Gedanken über die moralischen Vorurteile, 1881. Recommended translation: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality, ed. Maudemarie Clark and Brian Leiter, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
    Excerpt: 1. In this book you will discover a ‘subterranean man’ at work, one who tunnels and mines and undermines. You will see him—presupposing you have eyes capable of seeing this work in the depths—going forward slowly, cautiously,… More

  • The Gay Science

    - Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, 1882. Recommended translations: Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Gay Science, with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs. Translated by Walter Kaufmann. New York: Random House, 1974. Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom). Translated by Thomas Common. New York: Macmillan Co., 1924.
    Excerpt: 1. Invitation Take a chance and try my fare: It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you. If by then you should want more, All the things I’ve done before Will inspire things quite new. 2. My Happiness Since I grew tired of the… More

  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    - Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen, 1883. Recommended translation: Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale. London: Penguin Books, 1961.
    Excerpt: When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But at last his heart changed,—and rising one morning… More

  • Beyond Good and Evil

    - Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft, 1886. Recommended translation: Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future. Translated by Walter Kaufmann. New York: Random House, 1966.  
    Excerpt: The will to truth which will still tempt us to many a venture, that famous truthfulness of which all philosophers so far have spoken with respect—what questions has this will to truth not laid before us! What strange, wicked, questionable… More

  • Ecce Homo

    - Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist, 1908. Recommended translations: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo, trans. Walter Kaufmann, Vintage Books, 1969. Ecce Homo: How One Becomes what One Is, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Penguin, 1982.
    Excerpt: The happiness of my existence, its unique character perhaps, lies in its fatefulness: expressing it in the form of a riddle, as my own father I am already dead, as my own mother I still live and, grow old. This double origin, taken as it were from… More

  • The Antichrist

    - Der Antichrist, 1895. Recommended translation: The Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Penguin, 1977.
    Excerpt: –Let us look each other in the face. We are Hyperboreans–we know well enough how remote our place is. “Neither by land nor by water will you find the road to the Hyperboreans”: even Pindar,in his day, knew that much about… More

  • The Will to Power

    - Der Wille zur Macht, ed. Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, Heinrich Köselitz, Ernst Horneffer, and August Horneffer, 1901, 1906. Recommended translation: The Will to Power, trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale, ed., with commentary, Walter Kaufmann, Vintage, 1968.
    Excerpt: Book One, European Nihilism 1. Nihilism stands at the door: whence comes this uncanniest of all guests? Point of departure: it is an error to consider “social distress” or “physiological degeneration” or, worse, corruption,… More

  • Twilight of the Idols

    - Götzen-Dämmerung, oder, Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert, 1889. Recommended translation: Nietzsche, Friedrich. Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale. London: Penguin Books, 1977.
    Excerpt: In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless. . . . Everywhere and always their mouths have uttered the same sound – a sound full of doubt, full of melancholy, full of weariness with life, full of opposition… More

Other Works

  • On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

    - "Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil der Historie für das Leben," 1874. Reprinted in Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen, 1876. Recommended Translation: On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life, trans. Peter Preuss, Hackett, 1980.
    Excerpt: “Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.” These are Goethe’s words with which, as with a boldly expressed ceterum censeo, we may begin our consideration of the… More

  • Unpublished Letters

    - Recommended translation: Unpublished Letters, trans. and ed. Kurt F. Leidecker, Philosophical Library, 1959.
    Excerpt: To Elisabeth Nietzsche (Pforta, end of November 1861) Dear Liese: — Since I owe you a letter for quite some time I shall write you an especially fine one now, provided my clumsy pen will not prevent me. Probably there is nothing with which I can… More

Commentary

  • Son of the Morning: A Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche

    - O'Brien, Edward Joseph Harrington. Son of the Morning: A Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche. London: Cape, 1932.

  • Meaning in History

    - Loewith, Karl. Meaning in History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1949.
    From the Publisher: “Modern man sees with one eye of faith and one eye of reason. Consequently, his view of history is confused. For centuries, the history of the Western world has been viewed from the Christian or classical standpoint—from a deep… More

  • Nietzsche and Christianity

    - Jaspers, Karl. Nietzsche and Christianity. Chicago: Regency, 1961.

  • Young Nietzsche and the Wagnerian Experience

    - Love, Frederick R.  Young Nietzsche and the Wagnerian Experience. Chapel Hill: University of Carolina Press, 1963.

  • From Hegel to Nietzsche: The Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Thought

    - Loewith, Karl. From Hegel to Nietzsche: The Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Thought. Translated by David E. Green. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. Anchor Books, 1964.
    From the Publisher: “Beginning with an examination of the relationship between Hegel and Goethe, Löwith discusses how Hegel’s students, particularly Marx and Kierkegaard, interpreted—-or reinterpreted—-their master’s thought,… More

  • Nietzsche as Philosopher

    - Arthur C. Danto, Nietzsche as Philosopher, MacMillan, 1965; expanded ed. Columbia University Press, 2005.
    About the book: Few philosophers are as widely read or as widely misunderstood as Friedrich Nietzsche. When Danto’s classic study was first published in 1965, many regarded Nietzsche as a brilliant but somewhat erratic thinker. Danto, however, presented… More

  • “Eternal Recurrence in Nietzsche’s Philosophy”

    - Pfeffer, Rose.  "Eternal Recurrence in Nietzsche's Philosophy." Review of Metaphysics 19 (December 1965): 276-300.
    Excerpt: “The importance of the theory of eternal recurrence within the framework of Nietzsche’s thought has been a subject of dispute among Nietzsche scholars. Some dismiss the idea as a subjective, religious experience and a deceptive illusion.1… More

  • Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of His Philosophical Activity

    - Jaspers, Karl. Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of His Philosophical Activity. Translated by Charles F. Wallraff and Frederick J. Schmitz. Chicago: Henery Regnery Company, 1966.
    Excerpt: “Nietzsche claimed to be a philosopher of the future, but he was appropriated as a philosopher of Nazism. His work inspired a long study by Martin Heidegger and essays by a host of lesser disciples attached to the Third Reich. In 1935, however,… More

  • Some Aspects of the Life and Work of Nietzsche and Particularly of His Connection with Greek Literature and Thought

    - Knight, G. W.  Some Aspects of the Life and Work of Nietzsche and Particularly of His Connection with Greek Literature and Thought.  New York: Russell & Russell, 1967.

  • Nietzsche, The Thinker

    - Salter, W. F.  Nietzsche, The Thinker. New York: Unger, 1968.

  • What Is Called Thinking?

    - Heidegger, Martin. What Is Called Thinking? Translated by Fred D. Wieck and J. Glenn Gray. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1972.
    “For an acquaintance with the thought of Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking? is as important as Being and Time. It is the only systematic presentation of the thinker’s late philosophy and . . . it is perhaps the most exciting of his… More

  • Nietzsche: Disciple of Dionysus

    - Pfeffer, Rose. Nietzsche: Disciple of Dionysus. New Jersey: Associated University Presses, Inc. and Bucknell Univeristy Press, 1972.

  • Ressentiment

    - Scheler, Max. Ressentiment. Translated by W. W. Holdheim. Edited with an introduction by Lewis A. Coser. New York: Free Press, 1972.

  • Nietzsche’s Thought of Eternal Return

    - Stambaugh, Joan. Nietzsche's Thought of Eternal Return. Baltimore, Maryland 21218: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972.

  • “Nietzsche’s Underworld of Truth”

    - Sallis, John.  "Nietzsche's Underworld of Truth."  Philosophy Today 16, no. 1 (Spring 1972): 12-19.

  • Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays

    - Solomon, Robert C. Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays. Garden City: Anchor Books, 1973.

  • Nietzsche’s view of Socrates by Werner Dannhauser

    - Werner J. Dannhauser, Nietzsche's View of Socrates, Cornell University Press, 1974.
    About the book (from review of the book in Dialogue, 1978): The problem W. Dannhauser undertakes to study in this book is obviously a very interesting one for the student of Nietzsche’s philosophy. Can one reduce the question of Nietzsche’s… More

  • Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

    - Kaufmann, Walter. Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974.
    From the Publisher: “This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part… More

  • My Sister, My Spouse: A Biography of Lou-Andreas Salome

    - Peters, H. F.  My Sister, My Spouse: A Biography of Lou-Andreas Salome. Preface by Anais Nin. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1974.
    From the Publisher: “Recounts the life of the Russo-German woman prominent in the intellectual and artistic life of late nineteenthand early twentieth-century Europe, examining her independence, her writings, and her relationships with such men as… More

  • “Nietzsche as Cosmologist: The Idea of the Eternal Recurrence as a Cosmological Doctrine and Some Aspects of Its Relation to the Doctrine of the Will to Power”

    - Combee, Jerry H.  "Nietzsche as Cosmologist: The Idea of the Eternal Recurrence as a Cosmological Doctrine and Some Aspects of Its Relation to the Doctrine of the Will to Power."  Interpretation 4, no. 1 (Winter 1974): 38-47.
    Excerpt: “In the last speech of part 2 of Thus Spoke Zarathustra,1 Zarathustra teUs his friends that there is stUl something more he could teU them. Evidently Zarathustra’s final teaching has not been revealed; perhaps it is that teaching is… More

  • “Heidegger and Zarathustra”

    - Krell, David Farrell.  "Heidegger and Zarathustra."  Philosophy Today 18, no. 4 (Winter 1974): 306-11.

  • “Heidegger’s Nietzsche Interpretation”

    - Lampert, Laurence. “Heidegger’s Nietzsche Interpretation.” Man and World 7, no. 4 (November 1, 1974): 353–378.
    Excerpt: “Heidegger has devoted over 1400 pages of published work to an interpreta- tion of Nietzsche and there emerges from his pages a Nietzsche quite unlike any yet encountered either in Nietzsche’s own interpretation of himself or in the… More

  • Wagner and Nietzsche

    - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Wagner and Nietzsche, trans. Joachim Neogroschel, Seabury Press, 1976.

  • “Zarathustra and the Magician or, Nietzsche Contra Nietzsche: Some Difficulties in the Concept of the Overman”

    - Robbins, Leonard.  "Zarathustra and the Magician or, Nietzsche Contra Nietzsche: Some Difficulties in the Concept of the Overman."  Man and World 9, no. 2 (June 1976): 175-95.
    Excerpt: “What torments must Zarathustra have caused his creator, what pricks and snubs and deep embarrassments ! For surely Nietzsche is no superman, and he suffers under the weight of his ideal. In turn, is not Nietzsche himself Zarathustra’s… More

  • Nietzsche’s Theory of Knowledge

    - Ruediger Hermann Grimm, Nietzsche's Theory of Knowledge, Walter de Gruyter, 1977.
    Excerpt: If one were to choose that modern thinker who has been more misunderstood and maligned than any other, I have little doubt that a consensus of opinion would award that dubious honor to Friedrich Nietzsche. The name of Nietzsche has for years elicited… More

  • Nietzsche’s Gift

    - Harold Alderman, Nietzsche's Gift, Ohio University Press, 1977.

  • The New Nietzsche: Contemporary Styles of Interpretation

    - Allison, David B., ed. The New Nietzsche: Contemporary styles of Interpretation. New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1977.
    From the Publisher: “The New Nietzsche offers an important sampling of the rereadings of Friedrich Nietzche’s work that have contributed greatly to the development of contemporary European philosophy.The fifteen essays, written by such eminent… More

  • “Nietzsche’s Lament of Ariadne”

    - Reinhardt, Karl.  "Nietzsche's Lament of Ariadne."  Translated by Gunther Heilbraum Interpretation 6, no. 3 (October 1977): 204-24.

  • “Recent Discussions of Eternal Recurrence: Some Critical Comments”

    - Sterling, M. C.  "Recent Discussions of Eternal Recurrence: Some Critical Comments."  Nietzsche Studien 6 (1977): 261-291.

  • Spurs: Nietzsche’s Styles

    - Jacques Derrida, Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles, trans. barbara Harlow, University of Chicago Press, 1978.
    About the book: Nietzsche has recently enjoyed much scrutiny from the nouveaux critiques. Jacques Derrida, the leader of that movement, here combines in his strikingly original and incisive fashion questions of sexuality, politics, writing, judgment,… More

  • Nietzsche and Eternal Recurrence: The Redemption of Time and Becoming

    - Hatab, Lawrence J.  Nietzsche and Eternal Recurrence: The Redemption of Time and Becoming. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, Inc., 1978.

  • Nietzsche: Imagery and Thought

    - Pasley, Malcolm, ed. Nietzsche: Imagery and Thought. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978.
    From the Publisher: “The central theme of this collection of essays, first published in 1978, is the basic tension in Nietzsche, and so in his work, between the urge to weave a satisfying web out of reality and the equally strong compulsion to expose… More

  • Review of Nietzsche’s View of Socrates

    - Bergoffen, Debra B.  Review of Nietzsche's View of Socrates, by Werner J. Dannhauser.  In Man and World 11, nos. 1/2 (1978): 216-223.

  • “Nietzsche’s Animals: Idea, Image, and Influence”

    - Reed, T. J.  "Nietzsche's Animals: Idea, Image, and Influence." In Nietzsche: Imagery and Thought--A Collection of Essays. Edited, with a preface, by Malcolm Pasley. London: Metheuen, 1978, 159-219.

  • “Nietzsche’s Return to an Aesthetic Beginning”

    - Wurzer, Wilhelm S.  "Nietzsche's Return to an Aesthetic Beginning," Man and World 11, nos. 1/2 (1978): 59-77.
    Excerpt: “When Nietzsche claims that his earliest work, The Birth of Tragedy, “smells offensively Hegelian, ”1 he is referring to his “dialectic” description of the Apollinian and Dionysian and their unique relation to the… More

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

    - Stern, J. P. Friedrich Nietzsche. New York: Penguin Books, 1979.

  • “Nietzsche and Heraclitus”

    - Hershbell, Jackson P. and Nimis, Stephen A.  "Nietzsche and Heraclitus."  Nietzsche Studien 8 (1979): 17-38.

  • “Eternal Recurrence”

    - Magnus, Bernd.  "Eternal Recurrence."  Nietzsche Studien 8 (1979): 362-77.

  • Between a Fool and a Corpse: Zarathustra and the Overcoming of Man

    - Perkins, Richard.  Between a Fool and a Corpse: Zarathustra and the Overcoming of Man. Mount Pleasant: Enigma Press, 1980.

  • “Art, Truth, and Aesthetics in Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Power”

    - Arras, John D.  "Art, Truth, and Aesthetics in Nietzsche's Philosophy of Power."  Nietzsche Studien 9  (1980): 239-59.

  • “Nietzsche’s Mitigated Skepticism”

    - Magnus, Bern.  "Nietzsche's Mitigated Skepticism."  Nietzsche Studien 9 (1980): 260-67.

  • “The Relation between Nietzsche’s Theory of the Will to Power and His Earlier Conception of Power”

    - Mittelman, Willard.  "The Relation between Nietzsche's Theory of the Will to Power and His Earlier Conception of Power." Nietzsche Studien 9 (1980): 122-41.

  • Nietzsche On Tragedy

    - Silk, M. S. and Stern, J. P. Nietzsche On Tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
    From the Publisher: “This is the first comprehensive study of Nietzsche’s earliest (and extraordinary) book, The Birth of Tragedy (1872). When he wrote it, Nietzsche was a Greek scholar, a friend and champion of Wagner, and a philosopher in the… More

  • “‘God’s Second Blunder’–Serpent Woman and the Gestalt in Nietzsche’s Thought”

    - Bertram, Maryanne J.  "'God's Second Blunder'--Serpent Woman and the Gestalt in Nietzsche's Thought."  Southern Journal Philosophy 19  (Fall 1981): 259-78.

  • “Nietzsche’s Recurrence Revisited: The French Connection”

    - Brush, Stephen G.  "Nietzsche's Recurrence Revisited: The French Connection."  Journal History of Philosophy 19 (April 1981): 235-38.
    Excerpt: “Joe Krueger’s article is the latest and perhaps the best of a long series of attempts to explicate the historical background and philosophical significance of Nietzsche’s theory of the Eternal Recurrence. I Yet, like almost all… More

  • “Nietzsche and the Ascent of Man in a Cyclical Cosmos”

    - Clegg, Jerry S.  "Nietzsche and the Ascent of Man in a Cyclical Cosmos."  Journal of the History of Philosophy 19 (January 1981): 81-94.
    Excerpt: “ANYONE WHO IS either innocent or determined enough to take the myriad speculative genealogies and prophesies of Nietzsche’s work at face value will readily allow that it tenders an evolutionary theory of history. The Birth of Tragedy… More

  • “Nietzsche on Women”

    - Hatab, Lawrence J.  "Nietzsche on Women."  Southern Journal of Philosophy 19 (Fall 1981): 333-46.

  • “Nietzsche as Aestheticist”

    - Megill, Allan.  "Nietzsche as Aestheticist." Philosophy and Literature 5 (1981): 204-225.
    Excerpt: “IF IN modern art the question of the ontological status of art has become central to art itself, so that in the guise of Duchamp’s urinal and Warhol’s Brillo boxes art has become philosophical, then surely in certain quarters… More

  • Nietzsche: IV. Nihilism

    - Heidegger, Martin. Nietzsche: IV. Nihilism. Edited, with notes and an analysis by David Farrell Krell. Translated by Frank A. Capuzzi. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1982.

  • Truth and Value in Nietzsche: A Study His Metaethics and Epistemology

    - Wilcox, John T. Truth and Value in Nietzsche: A Study His Metaethics and Epistemology. Washington DC: University Press of America, Inc., 1982.

  • Metaphor: Problems and Perspectives

    - Miall, David S., ed. Metaphor: Problems and Perspectives. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press Inc., 1982.

  • “Friedrich Nietzsche: The Use and Abuse of Metaphor”

    - Cantor, Paul.  "Friedrich Nietzsche: The Use and Abuse of Metaphor."  In Metaphor: Problems and Perspectives.  Edited  by David S. Miall, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1982, pp. 71-88.

  • “Amor Fati and Power in Nietzsche”

    - Cobb-Stevens, Veda.  "Amor Fati and Power in Nietzsche." In Philosophical Reflections on Man in Literature. Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.  Boston: Riedel, 1982, pp.

  • “Mysticism and Language”

    - Hatab, Lawrence J.  "Mysticism and Language."  International Philosophy Quarterly 22, no. 1 (March 1982): 51-64.

  • “Decensional Reflection”

    - Krell, David Farrell.  "Decensional Reflection." In Philosophy and Archaic Experience. Edited by John Sallis. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1982.

  • “The Language of ‘The Gay Science'”

    - Lingis, Alphonso.  "The Language of 'The Gay Science'." In The Philosophical Reflections on Man in Literature. Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka. Boston: Riedel, 1982.
    Abstract: “To Nietzsche, the logical axioms of identity, non-contradiction and excluded middle and the metaphysical categories of entity, being, enduring entity have but anthropological and not ontological value. They are the simplifications, the… More

  • “Nietzsche Contra Renan”

    - Shapiro, Gary.  "Nietzsche Contra Renan."  History and Theory 21 (May 1982): 193-222.
    Excerpt: “I mean by the title of this essay to allude to Nietzsche Contra Wagner and thereby to suggest the use which Nietzsche made of Renan in formulating some of his most distinctive thoughts. More specifically I suggest that Nietzsche’s later… More

  • Nietzsche and Philosophy

    - Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy, trans. Hugh Tomlinson, Columbia University Press, 1983.
    About the book: Nietzsche and Philosophy has long been recognized as one of the most important accounts of Nietzsche’s philosophy, acclaimed for its rare combination of scholarly rigour and imaginative interpretation. Yet this is more than a major work… More

  • Nietzsche

    - Schacht, Richard. Nietzsche. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983.
    From the Publisher: “Few philosophers have been as widely misunderstood as Nietzsche. His detractors and followers alike have often fundamentally misinterpreted him, distorting his views and intentions and criticizing or celebrating him for reasons… More

  • “Art and Embodied Truth”

    - Baxter, Brian H.  "Art and Embodied Truth."  Mind 92, no. 366 (April  1983): 189-203.
    Excerpt: “i. The view that art is concerned with truth in some sense, and that this fact about it is essential to an explanation of its importance, has seemed to many to lie at the heart of a proper understanding of art as it has developed in western… More

  • “Why a Genealogy of Morals?”

    - Bergoffen, Debra B.  "Why a Genealogy of Morals?"  Man and World 16 (1983): 129-138.
    Excerpt: “Why a genealogy of morals? At first glance this does not appear to be one of the more pressing or difficult issues of Nietzsche’s philosophy. It is common knowl- edge that On The Genealogy of Morals was written to directly explicate the… More

  • “Nietzsche’s Doctrines of the Will To Power”

    - Clark, Maudemarie.  "Nietzsche's Doctrines of the Will To Power." Nietzsche Studien 12 (1983): 458-68.

  • “Perfectibility and Attitude in Nietzsche’s ‘šbermensch'”

    - Magnus, Bernd.  "Perfectibility and Attitude in Nietzsche's Ubermensch'."  Review of Metaphysics 36 (March 1983): 633-659.
    Excerpt: “THIS paper consists essentially of three parts. The first part argues the case for construing Nietzsche’s remarks about Uber menschlichkeit as endorsing some (reasonably) specific set of char acter traits, of “virtues” if you… More

  • “Immanent and Transcendent Perspectivism in Nietzsche”

    - Nehamas, Alexander.  "Immanent and Transcendent Perspectivism in Nietzsche."  Nietzsche Studien 12 (1983): 473-490.

  • “Note on the Plan of Beyond Good and Evil”

    - Strauss, Leo.  "Note on the Plan of Beyond Good and Evil."  In Studies in Platonic Philosophy.  Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1983.
    Excerpt: “[1] Beyond Good and Evil always seemed to me to be the most beautiful of Nietzsche’s books. This impression could be thought to be contradicted by his judgement, for he was inclined to believe that his Zarathustra is the most profound… More

  • Beyond Nihilism: Nietzsche without Masks

    - Schutte, Ofelia. Beyond Nihilism: Nietzsche without Masks. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984.
    From the Publisher: “Nietzsche is regarded by some as a great liberator, a thinker far more radical than Marx. For others, he is an ideologue of power, a spokesman for domination, a protofascist. Ofelia Schutte holds that these conflicting assessments… More

  • Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy by R.J. Hollingdale

    - Hollingdale, R. J. Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy. Boston: Ark Paperbacks, 1985.
    From the Publisher: Hollingdale’s biography remains the single best account of the life and works for the student or nonspecialist. This classic biography of Nietzsche was first published in the 1960s and was enthusiastically reviewed at the time. Long… More

  • Nietzsche: Life as Literature

    - Nehamas, Alexander. Nietzsche: Life as Literature. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.
    From the Publisher: “Argues that Nietzsche tried to create a specific literary character in his writings and discusses the paradoxes of his work.”

  • Zarathustra’s Sister: The Case of Elisabeth and Friedrich Nietzsche

    - Peters, H. F.  Zarathustra's Sister: The Case of Elisabeth and Friedrich Nietzsche. New York: Markus Wiener Publishing, Inc., 1985.

  • “Language, Metaphor, Rhetoric: Nietzsche’s Deconstruction of Epistemology”

    - Schrift, Alan D.  "Language, Metaphor, Rhetoric: Nietzsche's Deconstruction of Epistemology."  Journal of the History of Philosophy 23, no. 3 (July 1985): 371-95.
    Excerpt: “In The Order of Things, Michel Foucault cites Nietzsche’s “radical reflection upon language” as, in part, initiating the modern epoch.’ While one need not agree with this characterization of modernity, Foucault’s… More

  • Nietzsche’s Teaching: An Interpretation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    - Lampert, Laurence.  Nietzsche's Teaching: An Interpretation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
    From the Publisher: “The first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” — an important and difficult text and the only book Nietzsche ever wrote with characters, events, setting, and a plot. Laurence… More

  • “The ‘Warrior Spirit’ as an Inlet to the Political Philosophy of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra”

    - Pangle, Thomas. “The ‘Warrior Spirit’ as an Inlet to the Political Philosophy of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra,” Nietzsche-Studien: Internationales Jahrbuch für die Nietzsche-Forschung 15 (1986) 140-79.

  • Nietzsche’s “Zarathustra”

    - Higgins, Kathleen Marie.  Nietzsche's "Zarathustra". Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.
    From the Publisher: “Nietzsche’s Zarathustra takes an interdisciplinary approach to Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, focusing on the philosophical function of its literary techniques and its fictional mode of presentation. It argues… More

  • The Problem of Time in Nietzsche

    - Stambaugh, Joan. The Problem of Time in Nietzsche. Translated by J. F. Humphrey. New Jersey: Associated University Presses, Inc., 1987.
    From the Publisher: “This study emphasizes the original yet undeveloped elements of Nietzsche’s theories and examines the temporal structure underlying the basic concepts of his thought.”

  • “Friedrich Nietzsche” by Werner J. Dannhauser

    - Dannhauser, Werner J. “Friedrich Nietzsche.” In History of Political Philosophy, edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, 3rd ed., 862–885. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
    Excerpt: “The young Nietzsche thought of the philosopher as a physician of culture. His own philosophy is both a diagnosis of the sickness or crisis of his time, the nineteenth century, and the search for a cure. In his first published book, The Birth… More

  • Nietzsche and the Politics of Aristocratic Radicalism

    - Detwiler, Bruce. Nietzsche and the Politics of Aristocratic Radicalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

  • Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy

    - Maudemarie Clark, Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
    Excerpt: Nietzsche’s philosophy has recently generated a significant amount of interest and excitement, much of it centered around his position on truth. Considerable hope exists, and much conviction, that Nietzsche has something important to say about… More

  • Nietzsche’s Dangerous Game: Philosophy in the Twilight of the Idols

    - Daniel Conway, Nietzsche's Dangerous Game: Philosophy in the Twilight of the Idols, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
    Excerpt: This book undertakes a critical appraisal of the political philosophy that informs the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche from the period 1885-88. The interpretive task I have set for myself is twofold: First, I reconstruct the revised critique of… More

  • Nietzsche and Political Thought

    - Warren, Mark. Nietzsche and Political Thought. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1991.
    From the Publisher: “Friedrich Nietzsche was a troublesome genius, a figure outside the mainstream philosophical tradition whose very apartness has made him central to contemporary philosophy. Nietzsche and Political Thought reclaims the political… More

  • “Nietzsche’s Minimalist Moral Psychology”

    - Williams, Bernard.  “Nietzsche’s Minimalist Moral Psychology" (European Journal of Philosophy) 1 (1):4-14 (1993)

  • An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker

    - Keith Ansel-Pearson, An Introduction to Nietzsche as a Political Thinker, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
    Excerpt: Nietzsche is an ambiguous and paradoxical thinker whose writings never cease to disturb, provoke, and inspire, even when they challenge one’s innermost convictions. He has been a key figure on the intellectual and cultural landscape for over a… More

  • Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist

    - Peter Berkowitz, Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.

  • The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche

    - Magnus, Bernd, and Kathleen Higgins, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
    The opening essay of this Companion provides a chronologically organized introduction to and summary of Nietzsche’s published works, while also providing an overview of their basic themes and concerns. It is followed by three essays on the appropriation… More

  • Postmodern Platos: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, Derrida

    - Zuckert, Catherine H. Postmodern Platos: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, Derrida. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
    From the Publisher: “Catherine Zuckert examines the work of five key philosophical figures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the lens of their own decidedly postmodern readings of Plato. She argues that Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer,… More

  • Nietzsche and the Political

    - Daniel Conway, Nietzsche and the Political, Routledge, 1997.
    About the book: In this study Daniel Conway shows how Nietzsche’s political thinking bears a closer resemblance to the conservative republicanism of his predecessors than to the progressive liberalism of his contemporaries. The key contemporary figures… More

  • Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence by Karl Löwith

    - Löwith, Karl. Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
    From the Publisher: This long overdue English translation of Karl Löwith’s magisterial study is a major event in Nietzsche scholarship in the Anglo-American intellectual world. Its initial publication was extraordinary in itself—a dissident… More

  • Nietzsche: Critical Assessments

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    Conway, Daniel W, and Peter S Groff, ed. Nietzsche: Critical Assessments. London; New York: Routledge, 1998.
    From the Publisher: “Nietzsche: Critical Assessments collects together the very best scholarship available on Nietzsche’s multi-dimensional thought.Nietzsche’s writings are now considered seminal to a number of scholarly disciplines,… More

  • Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation

    - Christoph Cox, Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation, University of California Press, 1999.
    About the book: Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation offers a resolution of one of the most vexing problems in Nietzsche scholarship. As perhaps the most significant predecessor of more recent attempts to formulate a postmetaphysical epistemology and… More

  • The Tragic Philosopher

    - Lea, F. A.  The Tragic Philosopher.  New York: Athlone Press, 2001.
    From the Publisher: “This classic account of Nietzsche’s thought, first published in 1957, is now available in paperback. It traces the development of Nietzsche’s thought through all its principal phases, and stresses its relevance to our… More

  • Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Geneaology

    - Williams, Bernard.  Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Geneaology (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 2002).
    From the Publisher: “What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic… More

  • Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography

    - Safranski, Rudiger. Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.
    From the Publisher: “A seminal biography, essential reading for anyone studying the philosophy of history’s most enigmatic and fascinating thinker. No other modern philosopher has proved as influential as Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and none… More

  • The Paradox of Philosophical Education: Nietzsche’s New Nobility and the Eternal Recurrence in Beyond Good and Evil

    - Lomax, Harvey J. The Paradox of Philosophical Education: Nietzsche’s New Nobility and the Eternal Recurrence in Beyond Good and Evil. Lexington Books, 2003.
    From the Publisher: “The Paradox of Philosophical Education: Nietzsche’s New Nobility and the Eternal Recurrence in Beyond Good and Evil is the first coherent interpretation of Nietzsche’s mature thought. Author Harvey Lomax pays particular… More

  • Nietzsche’s Task by Laurence Lampert

    - Lampert, Laurence. Nietzsche’s Task: An Interpretation of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.
    From the Publisher: When Nietzsche published Beyond Good and Evil in 1886, he told a friend that it was a book that would not be read properly until “around the year 2000.” Now Laurence Lampert sets out to fulfill this prophecy by providing a… More

  • Nietzsche’s Zarathustra by Stanley Rosen

    - Rosen, Stanley. The Mask of Enlightenment: Nietzsche’s Zarathustra. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.
    From the Publisher: This landmark study is a detailed textual and thematic analysis of one of Nietzsche’s most important but least understood works. Stanley Rosen argues that in Zarathustra Nietzsche lays the groundwork for philosophical and political… More

  • “Love and Death in Nietzsche”

    - Pippin, Robert.  "Love and Death in Nietzsche," Religion after Onto-Theology, edited by Mark Wrathall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

  • “Nietzsche’s Honest Masks: From Truth to Nobility Beyond Good and Evil”

    - Kirkland, Paul E. “Nietzsche’s Honest Masks: From Truth to Nobility Beyond Good and Evil.” The Review of Politics 66, no. 04 (2004): 575–604.
    Abstract: “This article argues that Nietzsche uses a rhetorically modern appeal to enact the self-overcoming of modernity and the aim of enlightenment. It demonstrates how Nietzsche aims to move his readers from a prejudice in favor of truthfulness, by… More

  • Nietzsche’s Life Sentence: Coming to Terms with Eternal Recurrence

    - Lawrence J. Hatab, Nietzsche's Life Sentence: Coming to Terms with Eternal Recurrence, Routledge, 2005.
    About the book: In this book Lawrence Hatab provides an accessible and provocative exploration of one of the best-known and still most puzzling aspects of Nietzsche’s thought: eternal recurrence, the claim that life endlessly repeats itself identically… More

  • “‘Slouching Toward Bethlehem to Be Born’: On the Nature and Meaning of Nietzsche’s Superman.”

    - Gillespie, Michael Allen. “‘Slouching Toward Bethlehem to Be Born’: On the Nature and Meaning of Nietzsche’s Superman.” The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 30, no. 1 (2005): 49–69.
    Excerpt: “Nietzsche’s name in our time has been indelibly linked with four ideas: the death of God, nihilism, the will to power, and the superman. These ideas, however, are not as central to his work as we often assume. The death of God, for… More

  • “Nietzsche’s Moral Psychology and the French Moralist Tradition”

    - Pippin, Robert.  “Nietzsche’s Moral Psychology and the French Moralist Tradition,” Nietzscheforschung 12 (2006).

  • Eros in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche the Politics of Infinity

    - Cooper, Laurence D. Eros in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche the Politics of Infinity. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008.
    From the Publisher: “Human beings are restless souls, ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be more—to be infinitely more. Various philosophers have emphasized this type of ceaseless striving in their accounts of… More

  • Nietzsche’s Noble Aims: Affirming Life, Contesting Modernity

    - Kirkland, Paul E. Nietzsche’s Noble Aims: Affirming Life, Contesting Modernity. Lexington Books, 2009.
    From the Publisher: “This innovative volume presents an account of Nietzsche’s claims about noble, life-affirming ways of life, analyzes the source of such claims, and explores the political vision that springs from them. Kirkland elucidates the… More

  • Nietzsche’s Political Skepticism

    - Shaw, Tamsin. Nietzsche’s Political Skepticism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
    From the Publisher: “Political theorists have long been frustrated by Nietzsche’s work. Although he develops profound critiques of morality, culture, and religion, it is very difficult to spell out the precise political implications of his… More

  • Nietzsche’s Enlightenment: The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period

    - Paul Franco, Nietzsche's Enlightenment: The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period, University of Chicago Press, 2011.
    About the book: While much attention has been lavished on Friedrich Nietzsche’s earlier and later works, those of his so-called middle period have been generally neglected, perhaps because of their aphoristic style or perhaps because they are perceived to… More

  • “Thinking Nietzsche Through and Leo Strauss’ Recovery of Classical Political Philosophy”

    - Baldwin, Christopher.  "Thinking Nietzsche Through and Leo Strauss' Recovery of Classical Political Philosophy."  Klesis-Revue 19 (2011).
    Excerpt: “Leo Strauss is best and rightfully known for his recovery and defense of classical political philosophy. As a young man, however, Strauss was fascinated and persuaded by the thought of Nietzsche, a trenchant critic of the thought Strauss would… More

  • The Soul of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil

    - Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick, The Soul of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
    From the publisher: This book presents a provocative new interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil, arguably Nietzsche’s most important work. The problem is that it appears to express merely a loosely connected set of often questionable opinions. Can… More

  • Introductions to Nietzsche

    - Pippin, Robert. Introductions to Nietzsche. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.  
    From the Publisher: “The perfect package for Nietzsche scholars and for anyone interested in Nietzsche studies. This book is an up-to-date and authoritative overview of the thought of this fascinating figure. For everything Nietzsche, this unusual… More

  • The Flame of Eternity: An Interpretation of Nietzsche’s Thought

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    Michalski, Krzysztof. The Flame of Eternity: An Interpretation of Nietzsche’s Thought. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012.
    From the Publisher: “The Flame of Eternity provides a reexamination and new interpretation of Nietzsche’s philosophy and the central role that the concepts of eternity and time, as he understood them, played in it. According to Krzysztof… More

  • The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche

    - Gemes, Ken and John Richardson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
    The diversity of Nietzsche’s books, and the sheer range of his philosophical interests, have posed daunting challenges to his interpreters. This Handbook addresses this multiplicity by devoting each of its 32 essays to a focused topic, picked out by the… More

  • Leo Strauss Seminar on Nietzsche

    - Strauss, Leo. "Transcript of Seminar on Nietzsche." University of Chicago, 1967. Leo Strauss Archives. https://leostrausscenter.uchicago.edu
    Transcripts of a 1967 seminar course given by Leo Strauss at the University of Chicago on Nietzsche’s works, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy of Morals. Excerpt: It is customary and justified to some extent to speak of… More

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