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

Commentary

• 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’s Lament of Ariadne”

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

• 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

• 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