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Summary Friedrich Nietzsche is a 19th century German philosopher. He began his career as a philologist. Due to illness he retired from active academic life as a philologist in the summer of 1879 and devoted himself fully to the writing of his philosophical works. Nietzsche is most famous for his word God is dead. While it is not clear whether this word implies atheism, agnosticism or depth-theism, it shows that theological, metaphysical and moral issues inform the work of Nietzsche. For a long time Nietzsche was considered a philosophical dilettante, a mystic or a poet-philosopher. This view has been significantly altered by Heidegger's Nietzsche lectures from 1936-44 which characterize him as a systematic, metaphysically-oriented philosopher. In the Anglo-American world works of scholars such as Arthur C. Danto and John Richardson have also shown that Nietzsche should be taken seriously as a philosopher. Aside from Nietzsche's metaphysics (which encompasses the concepts of will to power, eternal recurrence, Uebermensch and nihilism), the German philosopher provided an original interpretation and critique of Christian ethics and morality. This work is found in the two major works On The Genealogy Of Morals and Beyond Good And Evil. Throughout his work Nietzsche is in dialogue with the Western philosophical tradition, which he severely criticizes. True to the task of cultural physician he takes upon himself the difficult endeavour of becoming the bad conscience of Western civilization. His main philosophic interlocutors are the Platonic and Xenophonic Socrates, Plato, the Stoics, Kant, Hegel and Schopenhauer.
Key works Danto 1965 A good introduction to Nietzsche's work by a philosopher in the Anglo-American analytical tradition. Contributed to show Nietzsche is to be taken seriously philosophically. Deleuze & Hardt 1983 A continental reading of Nietzsche's philosophy which challenges the connections between Hegel and Nietzsche established by Heidegger's landmarks lectures on Nietsche. Heidegger 1979 Canonical reading of Nietzsche in the 20th century. This interpretation changed the map and made clear that Nietzsche was a philosopher and perhaps a metaphysician. Heidegger claims that Nietzsche over-turns Platonism and completes Western metaphysics. Löwith & Gadamer 1964 Loewith was a student of Heidegger and a philosopher in his own right. This book and Nietzsche's Philosophy of Eternal Recurrence constitute classical studies of Nietzsche's work based on the historical approach to scholarship.
Introductions Heidegger & Magnus 1967 Solomon 1988 Leiter 2002
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  1. Nietzsche's Kind of Consciousness.Max Minden Ribeiro - forthcoming - Journal of Nietzsche Studies.
    This article critically examines two claims Mattia Riccardi ascribes to Nietzsche in his 2021 book Nietzsche’s Philosophical Psychology. The first is that Nietzsche’s main notion of consciousness should be interpreted as Rconsciousness. Rconsciousness is an awareness of a mental state or process that is achieved when that state is linguistically interpreted by another state. This article finds that Riccardi’s account commits to two instances of states becoming conscious and to two kinds of consciousness. The second claim is that Nietzsche advances (...)
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  2. Nietzsche e a psicofisiologia francesa do século XIX.Wilson Antonio Frezzatti Jr - 2019 - São Paulo: Humanitas.
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  3. Ein Wanderer und sein Schatten: Friedrich Nietzsches Gedanken-Gänge in St. Moritz.Elke-A. Wachendorff - 2021 - Basel: Schwabe Verlag.
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  4. Commento a Umano, troppo umano aforisma per aforisma.Sossio Giametta - 2021 - Napoli: Bibliopolis.
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  5. (2 other versions)Kommentar zu Nietzsches "also Sprach Zarathustra" I und II: 1.Katharina Grätz - 2024 - Boston: De Gruyter.
    An der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften entsteht der erste umfassende historische und kritische Kommentar zum Werk Friedrich Nietzsches. Obwohl Nietzsche zu den wirkungsmächtigsten Denkern der Moderne gehört, fehlte bisher ein übergreifender Kommentar zu seinem Gesamtwerk, der die philosophischen, historischen und literarischen Voraussetzungen und Kontexte erschliesst. Für die künftige Nietzsche-Forschung bildet dieser Kommentar zu Friedrich Nietzsches.
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  6. Un'idea di prosa: Nietzsche, Walter Savage Landor e la conversazione immaginaria.Franco Gallo - 2024 - Pisa: Edizioni ETS.
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  7. Nietzsche et le problème de la communication: écrire avec son sang.Christophe Fradelizi - 2024 - Paris: Classiques Garnier.
    Friedrich Nietzsche est connu pour être un philosophe atypique, optant pour un type de communication philosophique qui se démarque nettement des traditions qui le précèdent. En outre, plus qu'une simple question autour de l'exposition de ses idées, le problème de la communication chez Nietzsche engage toute sa pensée, tant sur la forme que sur le fond. Le présent ouvrage s'attèle à montrer que la philosophie de Nietzsche est un questionnement incessant autour de la possibilité de la communication, soit en tant (...)
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  8. Nietzsche: cours, conférences et travaux.Michel Foucault - 2024 - [Paris]: Seuil. Edited by Bernard E. Harcourt & François Ewald.
    "Nietzsche et Heidegger, ça a été le choc philosophique! Mais je n'ai jamais rien écrit sur Heidegger et je n'ai écrit sur Nietzsche qu'un tout petit article ; ce sont pourtant les deux auteurs que j'ai le plus lus", dira Michel Foucault à la fin de sa vie. Puis, il précise : "Je crois que c'est important d'avoir un petit nombre d'auteurs avec lesquels on pense, avec lesquels on travaille, mais sur lesquels on n'écrit pas." Les Cours, conférences et travaux (...)
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  9. Nietzsche on the methods and aims of philosophy: the seal of liberation.Allison Merrick - 2025 - New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.
    This book focuses on Nietzsche's method of genealogy and shows how Nietzsche uses genealogical methods to render us less obscure to ourselves, to liberate us from value systems that no longer serve our interests, and to demonstrate how we might become less prone to guilt and shame.
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  10. The young Nietzsche's education: an interpretation of Nietzsche's Untimely considerations.Jozef Majerník - 2025 - Albany: State University of New York Press.
    A new interpretation of what is arguably Nietzsche's most neglected work.
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  11. Nietzsche Now! The Great Immoralist on the Vital Issues of Our Time.Glenn Wallis - 2024 - New York City: Warbler Press.
    For readers both acquainted with and new to the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche NOW! frames and explains Nietzsche’s thinking on topics of immediate contemporary concern and relevance. Wallis unpacks Nietzsche’s complex philosophy with a deft, empathetic, and brilliantly subtle analysis of the views of the Great Immoralist on democracy, identity, civilization, consciousness, religion, and other momentous topics. Throughout, Wallis includes ample extracts from Nietzsche himself. -/- In Nietzsche NOW! Wallis takes readers on a sometimes counterintuitive, always revelatory journey to (...)
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  12. Nietzschean Decadence as Psychic Disunity.Kaitlyn Creasy - 2024 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 55 (2):127-146.
    This article offers an account of Nietzschean decadence as a psycho-physiological condition characterized by a failure of psychic integration—a failure Nietzsche thinks precludes genuine agency, since the psychic integration the decadent fails to achieve is necessary for agency. As part of this account, this article develops an interpretation of an underexplored but crucial form of decadence: repressed decadence. Exploring this variety of Nietzschean decadence both enables us to make sense of the case of Wagner’s alleged decadence and adds nuance to (...)
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  13. Nietzsche’s “Sensualism” from 1885 to 1888.Alexander Rueger - forthcoming - Nietzsche Studien.
    After having held through much of his career the view that our senses and our intellect falsify the world, Nietzsche published in Twilight of the Idols the claim that the senses do not lie at all. A preparation for this apparent change of mind has often been seen in BGE 15, where Nietzsche seems to recommend “sensualism,” at least for scientists working on the physiology of the senses. I try to characterize in some detail what “sensualism” means by drawing on (...)
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  14. An Implexic Genealogical Analysis of the Absurd.Brian Lightbody - 2025 - Histories 5 (1):1-21.
    According to some, humanity’s search to answer the question “What is the meaning of life?” fuels the creative fires that forge all of civilization’s great religious, spiritual, and philosophical texts. But how seriously should we take the question? In the following paper, I provide an implexic genealogical analysis of the cognitive structures that make the very articulation of the question possible. After outlining my procedure, my paper begins by explaining the main components of a genealogical inquiry. Next, I examine Camus’s (...)
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  15. Permissible Expressions of Asceticism in Kant and Nietzsche.Charles Duke - forthcoming - The European Legacy.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) criticized Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and the heirs of his philosophical edifice for their enslavement to the ascetic ideal. At times, Nietzsche’s ascetic priest functions as a representative of Kant. However, Kant confronted accusations of promoting asceticism in his own time from thinkers like Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805). In his replies, Kant not only clarified his disregard for the “monkish asceticism” of which he was accused, but he employed the term “ascetic” positively in *The Metaphysics of Morals* to detail (...)
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  16. Tone: Hearing Nietzsche’s Dionysus-Dithyrambs.Babette Babich - 2023 - New Nietzsche Studies 12 (1):161-185.
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  17. Nietzsche and Acoustics.David L. Mosley - 2023 - New Nietzsche Studies 12 (1):187-193.
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  18. Review of Francesca Cauchi, Zarathustra’s Moral Tyranny. Spectres of Kant, Hegel and Feuerbach. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. [REVIEW]Peter Murray - 2023 - New Nietzsche Studies 12 (1):195-204.
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  19. Rhythm and Symbolic Process in The Birth of Tragedy.Kwok Kui Wong - 2023 - New Nietzsche Studies 12 (1):139-159.
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  20. Cosmologies of life after Peirce, Heidegger and Darwin.Otto Lehto - 2023 - In Eero Tarasti (ed.), Transcending Signs: Essays in Existential Semiotics. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 273-287.
    My paper proposes a tentative framework of bio-existential semiotics based on a reading of Peirce, Darwin, Heidegger, Tarasti, and others. According to this view, there is an evolutionary continuum to life. Human beings are natural organisms and they exhibit many similar bio-existential phenomena. Natural evolution also produces the anthropological, societal and global semiotic processes that constitute cultural evolution as an outgrowth. In the bio-existential perspective, the world is composed of imperfect systems and imperfect consciousnesses where every lifeform must struggle for (...)
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  21. Rhythm from Art to Philosophy — Nietzsche (1867-1888).Pascal Michon - 2023 - New Nietzsche Studies 12 (1):111-122.
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  22. "Well Then, Once Again!" Between Summits and Heavens.Michael Skowron - 2023 - New Nietzsche Studies 12 (1):95-110.
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  23. «Gleiches durch Gleiches»: Nietzsches Annäherung an die,Einfalt und Würde des Hellenischen‘ durch die Musik.Cathrin Nielsen - 2023 - New Nietzsche Studies 12 (1):123-138.
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  24. Whither Dionysian Music.John Carvalho - 2023 - New Nietzsche Studies 12 (1):77-93.
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  25. The Horse Episode: New Considerations and Deductions.Brian Pines - 2023 - New Nietzsche Studies 12 (1):43-68.
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  26. The Limbo of Last Men.Louise Mabille - 2023 - New Nietzsche Studies 12 (1):17-42.
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  27. Turin, January 6th, 1889: «I Am All the Names in History».Maurizio Ferraris - 2023 - New Nietzsche Studies 12 (1):69-74.
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  28. The Same, but Different: Nietzsche and Classical Philosophy.Josef Simon - 2023 - New Nietzsche Studies 12 (1):1-16. Translated by C. E. Emmer.
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  29. Modernity, Madness and Hermeneutic Sacrificial.Morteza Shahram - manuscript
    The courage to use one's own reason is an invitation to take more actions---implicating excessive use of agency, even under rampant false consciousness manufactured by mass media and technological priorities. If one does nothing and gains nothing by doing nothing, one is not subject to any evaluation or interpretation. Modernity is an ongoing incessant festival of cruel hermeneutic sacrificial.
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  30. Nietzsche’s Interaction with the Christian Priest in The Birth of Tragedy and The Dionysiac Worldview (4th edition).Mark Higgins - 2024 - Evangelical Quarterly 95 (4):356–377.
    This article explores the nuanced interaction early Nietzsche affords towards the thought and mission of the Christian priest in The Birth of Tragedy and its associated The Dionysiac Worldview. In terms of positive engagement, first, Nietzsche’s project of ‘justification’, central to these works, can be seen as pertaining to the project of the Christian priest, as Nietzsche understands him. Second, Nietzsche chooses to characterise and demonstrate his preferred ‘justifications’, the ‘Apollonian’ and ‘Dionysian’, by paralleling and borrowing from historical efforts of (...)
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  31. Nietzsche and Schiller on Aesthetic Distance.Timothy Stoll - forthcoming - European Journal of Philosophy:e13035.
    A key contention of Nietzsche's philosophy is that art helps us affirm life. A common reading holds that it does so by paving over, concealing, or beautifying life's undesirable features. This interpretation is unsatisfactory for two main reasons: Nietzsche suggests that art should foreground what is ‘ugly’ about existence, and he sees thoroughgoing honesty about life's character as a requirement on genuine affirmation. The paper presents an alternative reading. According to this reading, artworks depicting something terrible give us a feeling (...)
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  32. Scientific Theory or Practical Doctrine?Manfred Riedel - 1999 - In Babette E. Babich & R. S. Cohen (eds.), Nietzsche and the Sciences. pp. 187-197. Translated by C. E. Emmer.
  33. The portable Nietzsche.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - 1971 - London,: Chatto & Windus.
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  34. Nietzsche on the Poverty and Possibility of Human Love: Jesus, Dionysus, Zarathustra.Melanie Shepherd - forthcoming - Nietzsche Studien.
    Nietzsche’s portrait of Jesus as a lovesick knower of the heart in BGE 269 aligns the problems of Christian love with some of Nietzsche’s critical remarks about erotic love in the Free Spirit works. In this paper, I will examine the nuances of Nietzsche’s criticisms of erotic and of Christian love and demonstrate that in their failures, they also contain potential for forms of love that Nietzsche celebrates: self-love, friendship, and amor fati. Finally, I consider Beyond Good and Evil in (...)
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  35. "Ein Text ohne Ende für den Denkenden": zum Verhältnis von Philosophie und Kulturkritik im frühen Werk Friedrich Nietzsches.Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály - 1982 - Königstein/Ts.: Forum Academicum.
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  36. Ressentiment as a Reactive Attitude.Joel A. Van Fossen - manuscript
    This paper is forthcoming in The Moral Psychology of Resentment (Rowman & Littlefield).
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  37. Nietzsche’s Kind of Philosophy: Finding His Way.Rex Welshon - 2024 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 55 (2):232-237.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Nietzsche’s Kind of Philosophy: Finding His Way by Richard SchachtRex WelshonRichard Schacht, Nietzsche’s Kind of Philosophy: Finding His Way Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. xvii + 375 pp. ISBN: 978-0-226-82283-3 (cloth); 978-0-226-82286-0 (e-book). Cloth, $49.00; e-book, $48.99.Over the course of his distinguished career, Richard Schacht has written on alienation, value theory, and philosophical anthropology; he has analyzed the work of Hegel and coauthored a set of reflections (...)
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  38. Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche’s Philosophy.Vanessa Lemm - 2024 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 55 (2):218-225.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche’s Philosophy ed. by Herman Siemens and James PearsonVanessa LemmHerman Siemens and James Pearson, eds., Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche’s Philosophy London: Bloomsbury, 2019. 302 pp. ISBN: 978-1-3500-6695-3 (cloth); 978-1-3501-6383-6 (paper). £23.30.Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche’s Philosophy is a collection inspired by the 2014 Friedrich Nietzsche Society conference on “Nietzsche, Love, and War.” However, the content of the book is broader than the conference, (...)
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  39. Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Critical Guide (Cambridge Critical Guides)[REVIEW]Patrick Hassan - 2024 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 55 (2):212-217.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Review of: "Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Critical Guide" ed. by Keith Ansell-Pearson and Paul Loeb, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xii + 280 pp. ISBN: 978-1-108-49084-9 (cloth); 978-1-108-79648-4 (paper). Cloth, £75.00; Paper, £24.99.
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  40. Nietzsche’s Aesthetic Justification: A Minimal Interpretation.Hamidreza Mahboobi Arani - 2024 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 55 (2):158-183.
    This article aims to provide a minimal interpretation of the theme of aesthetic justification of life in Birth of Tragedy without relying on any substantial metaphysical claim about reality, presenting it rather as a practical and naturalistic response that is valuable and feasible regardless of one’s acceptance of Nietzsche’s metaphysical position, if he has any. According to this interpretation, the aesthetic justification of the Apolline and the Dionysiac metaphysical solace are originally instinctual remedies nature provides to address our naturally aroused (...)
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  41. Nietzschean Decadence as Psychic Disunity.Kaitlyn Creasy - 2024 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 55 (2):127-157.
    This article offers an account of Nietzschean decadence as a psycho-physiological condition characterized by a failure of psychic integration—a failure Nietzsche thinks precludes genuine agency, since the psychic integration the decadent fails to achieve is necessary for agency. As part of this account, this article develops an interpretation of an underexplored but crucial form of decadence: repressed decadence. Exploring this variety of Nietzschean decadence both enables us to make sense of the case of Wagner’s alleged decadence and adds nuance to (...)
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  42. (1 other version)Twilight of the idols.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - 2004 - Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications. Edited by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.
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  43. (3 other versions)The gay science.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - 1882 - New York: Barnes & Noble. Edited by Thomas Common, Paul V. Cohn & Maude Dominica Petre.
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  44. The scope problem : Nietzsche, the moral, ethical, and quasi-aesthetic.Simon Robertson - 2012 - In Simon Robertson & Christopher Janaway (eds.), Nietzsche, Naturalism & Normativity. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
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  45. (1 other version)Nietzsche on tragedy.M. S. Silk - 2016 - Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. Edited by J. P. Stern.
    This influential book was the first comprehensive study of Nietzsche's earliest work, The Birth of Tragedy (1872).
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  46. Nietzsche's Jewish problem: between anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism.Robert C. Holub - 2016 - Princeton: Princeton University Press.
    The first comprehensive account of Nietzsche's views of Jews and Judaism For more than a century, Nietzsche's views about Jews and Judaism have been subject to countless polemics. The Nazis infamously fashioned the philosopher as their anti-Semitic precursor, while in the past thirty years the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction. The increasingly popular view today is that Nietzsche was not only completely free of racist tendencies but also was a principled adversary of anti-Jewish thought. Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem offers (...)
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  47. (2 other versions)The antichrist.Friedrich Nietzsche - 2018 - Mineola, New York: Dover Publications. Edited by H. L. Mencken.
    'In truth there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross,' declares Nietzsche in this famous attack on Christianity and organized religion. One of philosophy's most accessible and easily understood works, the polemic consists of 62 brief chapters, each an aphorism that advances the philosopher's argument. Fast-paced, concise, and brimming with conviction, Nietzsche's final work is essential to a grasp of his complete oeuvre.
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  48. (1 other version)Vertigini della ragione: Schelling e Nietzsche.Emilio Carlo Corriero - 2018 - [Turin]: Rosenberg & Sellier.
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  49. The Nietzschean mind.Paul Katsafanas (ed.) - 2018 - New York: Routledge.
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  50. Not another image of torment : Nietzsche, eternal recurrence, and theatricality.Jeremy Killian - 2018 - In Brian Pines & Douglas Burnham (eds.), Understanding Nietzsche, Understanding Modernism. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
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