Major Works

• Thus Spoke Zarathustra

  - Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen, 1883. Recommended translation: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Penguin, 1961.
  Excerpt: When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But at last his heart changed,—and rising one morning… 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

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

• 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

• “Perfectibility and Attitude in Nietzsche’s ‘šbermensch'”

  - Magnus, Bernd.  "Perfectibility and Attitude in Nietzsche's Ubermensch'."  Review of Metaphysics 36 (March 1983): 633-659.
  Excerpt: “THIS paper consists essentially of three parts. The first part argues the case for construing Nietzsche’s remarks about Uber menschlichkeit as endorsing some (reasonably) specific set of char acter traits, of “virtues” if you… 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

• “‘Slouching Toward Bethlehem to Be Born’: On the Nature and Meaning of Nietzsche’s Superman.”

  - Gillespie, Michael Allen. “‘Slouching Toward Bethlehem to Be Born’: On the Nature and Meaning of Nietzsche’s Superman.” The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 30, no. 1 (2005): 49–69.
  Excerpt: “Nietzsche’s name in our time has been indelibly linked with four ideas: the death of God, nihilism, the will to power, and the superman. These ideas, however, are not as central to his work as we often assume. The death of God, for… More