A Selection of Books By and About Nietzsche


Works by Nietzsche

The Birth of Tragedy (1872), trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1967)

Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (1870-3), trans. Marianne Cowan(South Bend, Ind.: Gateway, 1962)

Untimely Meditations (1873-6), trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983)

Human, All Too Human (1878-80), trans. Marion Faber (Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1984)

Daybreak (1881), trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982)

The Gay Science (1882), trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1974)

Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-5), trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1966)

Beyond Good and Evil (1886), trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1966)

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Holling-dale (New York: Vintage, 1968)

The Case of Wagner (1888), trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1967)

Twilight of the Idols (1888), trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968)

The Anti-Christ (1888), trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968)

Nietzsche contra Wagner (1888), trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Viking, 1954)

Ecce Homo (1888), trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1968)

The Will To Power (1883-8)[collected and edited by Elizabeth Forster-Nietz- sche], trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale (New York: Vintage, 1968)

Correspondence and Other Relevant Materials

Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. and ed. Christopher Middleton (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969)

Nietzsche: A Self-Portrait from His Letters, trans. and ed. Peter Fuss and Henry Shapiro (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1971)

The Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence, trans. Caroline Kerr, ed. Elizabeth Forster-Nietzsche (New York: Liveright, 1921)

Conversations with Nietzsche: A Life in the Words of His Contemporaries, trans. David J. Parent, ed. Sander L. Gilman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987)

My Sister and I, trans. Oscar Levy (Los Angeles: AMOK, 1990) [originally published in 1951, the authenticity of this material is disputed]

H. F. Peters, Zarathustra's Sister: The Case of Elisabeth and Friedrich Nietzsche (New York: Crown Publisher, 1977)

H. F. Peters, My Sister, My Spouse: A Biography of Lou Andreas-Salome (New York: W. W. Norton, 1962)

Rudolph Binion, Frau Lou: Nietzsche's Wayward Disciple (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968)

Some Interpretive Works about Nietzsche

Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche, four volumes, trans. Frank A. Capuzzi, ed. David Farrell Krell (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1982)

R. J. Hollingdale, Nietzsche (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973)

Walter Kaufmann, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974)

Bernd Magnus, Nietzsche's Existential Imperative (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1978)

Arthur Danto, Nietzsche as Philosopher (Columbia University Press, 1980)

Alexander Nehamas, Nietzsche: Life As Literature (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1985)

Richard Schacht, Nietzsche (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983)

Richard Schacht (ed.), Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994)


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