In much the same vein as recent studies of the printed word and book distribution in the Enlightenment, the independent scholar Schaberg has provided us with an unusual accounting of the “business” of publishing Nietzsche. This saga is of some import in the context of a philosopher who arguably was the first to heed the “materiality” of the text, and who had a marked fondness for programmatic statements and ever-changing reorganizations of his corpus, including new over-arching syntheses of his previous (...) works. Schaberg makes this visually clear by providing us with countless reproductions of the original title pages and tables of contents of Nietzsche’s “written productions”, revealing certain transitional plans which are little known to us today, as they were so quickly replaced by others. (shrink)