Major Works

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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: Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Penguin, 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

Commentary

• 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

• 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’s Minimalist Moral Psychology”

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

• Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist

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

• 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 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

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

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

• 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