Major Works

• 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

Commentary

• 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

• 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

• Ressentiment

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

• Friedrich Nietzsche

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

• “Mysticism and Language”

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

• 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

• Nietzsche 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

• “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

• Friedrich Nietzsche

  - Werner J. Dannhauseer, "Friedrich Nietzsche" in History of Political Philosophy, eds. Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 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 of… More

• 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

• The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche

  - Eds. Bernd Magnus and Kathleen Higgins, The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche, Cambridge University Press, London, England, 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

• “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

• 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