NIETZSCHE BOOKS

A list of books by and about Nietzsche

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His Books

Age / Date / Title

28 - 1872 The Birth Of Tragedy.
29 - 1873 Untimely Meditations I: David Strauss: the Confessor and the Writer.
30 - 1874 Untimely Meditations II: On the Use and Abuse of History for Life.
30 - 1874 Untimely Meditations III: Schopenhauer as Educator.
32 - 1876 Untimely Meditations IV: Richard Wagner in Bayreuth.
34 - 1877 Human, All Too Human.
34 - 1877 Mixed Opinions and Maxims.
35 - 1879 The Wanderer and His Shadow.
36 - 1880 The Dawn.
37 - 1881 The Cheerful Science.
39 - 1882-85 Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
42 - 1886 Beyond Good and Evil.
43 - 1887 On the Genealogy of Morals.
44 - 1888 The Case of Wagner.
44 - 1888 Twilight of the Idols. (Published January 24, 1889.)
44 - 1888 Nietzsche contra Wagner. (Published February 1889.)
44 - 1888 The Antichrist. (Published November 1894.)
44 - 1888 Ecce Homo. (Published April 1908.)
41-44 - 1901 The Will to Power. (Notes selected and published by Nietzsche's sister)

Books about Nietzsche (In Order of Publishing Date)

Please note: In general I recommend only reading Nietzsche's writings. He's very enjoyable to read and writes clearly enough. Books about him get you to know the authors of those books, not Nietzsche. University professors that "explain" his thought or "integrate him" into the history of philosophy often miss the essential: his radical experimentation and play, the importance of his unique passionate style, his exposure and revaluation of our most cherished and smug modern values. But the recent books below may be useful to see the variety of interest in Nietzsche.


LaMothe, Kimerer L., 2006, Nietzsche's Dancers: Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and the Revaluation of Christian Values.
Young, Julian, 2006, Nietzsche's Philosophy of Religion.
Assoun,Paul-Laurent, 2006, Freud And Nietzsche.
Balto, Mark, 2006, Friedrich Nietzsche's kinship to Heraclitus of Ephesus.
Kazantzakis, Nikos, 2006, Friedrich Nietzsche on the Philosophy of Right And the State.
Reginster, Bernard, 2006, The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism.
Stack, George J., 2005, Nietzsche's Anthropic Circle.
Gordon, Paul, 2004, Tragedy after Nietzsche: Rapturous Superabundance. 
Huskinson, Lucy, 2004, Nietzsche and Jung.
Lomax, J. Harvey, 2003, Paradox of Philosophical Education.
Golomb, jacob, 2002, Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism?
Green, Michael Steven, 2002,Nietzsche and the Transcendental Tradition.
Marsden, Jill, 2002, After Nietzsche.
Hollingdale, R.J., 2001, Nietzsche: The Man and his Philosophy.
Lampert, Laurence, 2001, Nietzsche's Task.
Small, Robin, 2001, Nietzsche in Context.
Higgins Kathleen M., 2001, What Nietzsche Really Said.
Hales, Steven D., 2000, Nietzsche's Perspectivism.
Porter, James I., 2000, Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future.
Porter, James I., 2000, The Invention of Dionysus.
Abbey, Ruth, 2000, Nietzsche's Middle Period.
Allison, David, 2000, Reading the New Nietzsche.
Hayman, Ronald, 1982, Nietzsche: A Critical Life
Kaufmann, Walter, 1950, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist.

 

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