Major Works

• Beyond Good and Evil

  - Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft, 1886. Recommended translation: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, trans. Walter Kaufmann, 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

Commentary

• “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

• 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: 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’s Task by Laurence Lampert

  - Lampert, Laurence. Nietzsche’s Task: An Interpretation of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil. New Haven: 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 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

• 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

• 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