Major Works

• The Gay Science

  - Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, 1882. Recommended translations: The Gay Science, with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs, trans. Walter Kaufmann, Random House, 1974. The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom), trans. Thomas Common, 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

Commentary

• 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

• “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.

• 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