Major Works

• 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’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 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