List of works about Friedrich Nietzsche explained

This is a bibliography of works about 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

There have been many bibliographies documenting works about Nietzsche, the most comprehensive is considered to be the Weimarer Nietzsche-Bibliographie published between 2000 and 2002, listing over 20,000 items from 1867 to 1998, volume 1 consisting of Nietzsche's own works and translations in 42 languages while volumes 2 to 5 consist of works about Nietzsche, in the form of books, articles and more.^[1]

Literature

• Abbey, Ruth, Nietzsche's Middle Period, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000,
• Appel, Fredrick, Nietzsche Contra Democracy, New York: Cornell University Press, 1999,
• Arena, Leonardo Vittorio, Nietzsche e il nonsense, Milan: Franco Angeli, 1994,
• Arena, Leonardo Vittorio, Nietzsche in China in the XXth Century, ebook, 2012
• Aschheim, Steven E., The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany 1800-1990, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992
• Bataille, Georges, Nietzsche and Fascists, in the January 1937 issue of Acéphale (available on-line)
• Bataille, Georges, On Nietzsche. St. Paul: Paragon House, 1993, 978-1557786449
• Babich, Babette E., Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994,
• Benson, Bruce E., Pious Nietzsche: Decadence and Dionysian Faith. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2007,
• Blondel, Eric, Nietzsche: The Body and Culture, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991,
• Botwinick, Aryeh, Skepticism, Belief, and the Modern: Maimonides to Nietzsche, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997,
• Cauchi, Francesca, "Zarathustra contra Zarathustra: The Tragic Buffoon," Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998,
• Chamberlain, Lesley, Nietzsche in Turin: An Intimate Biography. New York: Picador, 1998,
• Clark, Maudemarie, Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990,
• Conway, Daniel (Ed.), Nietzsche and the Political (Routledge, 1997)
• Conway, Daniel W., Nietzsche's Dangerous Game: Philosophy in the Twilight of the Idols, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997,
• Danto, Arthur C., Nietzsche as Philosopher, New York: Columbia University Press, 1980,
• Deleuze, Gilles, Nietzsche and Philosophy New York: Columbia University Press, 1983,
• Derrida, Jacques, Spurs, Nietzsche's Styles, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1979,
• Derrida, Jacques, The Ear of the Other: Otobiography, Transference, Translation, Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 1985,
• Eberlein, Hermann-Peter, Flamme bin ich sicherlich! Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Overbeck und ihre Freunde, Köln: Schmidt von Schwind-Verlag, 1999,
• Eberwein, Dieter, Nietzsche's Writing Ball - a spot on Nietzsche's typewriter period, Schauenburg/Germany, www.eberwein-typoskriptverlag.de, 2005
• Foucault, Michel, Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology, New York: The New Press, 1998,
• Gaultier, Jules de., From Kant to Nietzsche, New York: Philosophical Library, 1961,
• Gillespie, M. A., Nihilism before Nietzsche, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996,
• Gilman, Sander L, ed., Conversations with Nietzsche: A Life in the Words of his Contemporaries. trans. David J. Parent, New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1987,
• Golan, Zev, God, Man and Nietzsche, New York: iUniverse, 2007,
• Green, Michael Steven, Nietzsche and the Transcendental Tradition, Urbana, Illinois University Press, 2002,
• Habermas, Jürgen, "The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a Turning Point" in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1991,
• Hales, Steven D. and Welshon, Rex. Nietzsche's Perspectivism, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000,
• Hatab, Lawrence J., Nietzsche's Life Sentence: Coming to Terms with Eternal Recurrence. London: Routledge, 2005,
• Hayman, Ronald, Nietzsche, a Critical Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980,
• Heidegger, Martin, Nietzsche: Volume I, The Will to Power as Art, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979 (note that the publication of these courses made in the 1930s is not integral)
• Heidegger, Martin, Nietzsche: Volume II, The Eternal Return of the Same, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984
• Heidegger, Martin, Nietzsche: Volume III, The Will to Power As Knowledge and As Metaphysics, HarperCollins, 1991,
• Heidegger, Martin, Nietzsche: Volume IV, Nihilism, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982
• Heller, Erich, The Importance of Nietzsche: Ten Essays, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988,
• Higgins, Kathleen Marie, Comic Relief: Nietzsche's Gay Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999,
• Hill, R. Kevin, Nietzsche's Critique: The Kantian Foundations of His Thought, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995,
• Hollingdale, R. J., Nietzsche, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973,
• Hollingdale, R. J., Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy, Revised Edition, Cambridge University Press, 1999,
• Hunt, Lester H, Nietzsche and the Origin of Virtue. London: Routledge, 1991,
• Huskinson, Lucy Nietzsche and Jung: The Whole Self in the Union of Opposites Brunner-Routledge, 2004,
• Hyde, J. Keith, Concepts of Power in Kierkegaard and Nietzsche Ashgate, 2010,
• Irigaray, Luce. Marine Lover: Of Friedrich Nietzsche, New York, Columbia University Press, 1980,
• Jaspers, Karl, Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of his Philosophical Activity, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1965,
• Jung, Carl G, Nietzsche's “Zarathustra”, ed. James L. Jarrett. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988,
• Kaufmann, Walter, (Fourth Edition), Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974,
• Kierans . Kenneth . On the Unity of Nietzsche’s Philosophy. . 2010 . 14 . 1209-0689. August 28, 2011.
• Klossowski, Pierre, Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, The University of Chicago Press, 1997,
• Kofman, Sarah, Nietzsche and Metaphor, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993,
• Krell, David Farrell Nietzsche: A Novel State University of New York Press, Albany, 1996,
• Krell, David Farrell Infectious Nietzsche Indiana University Press, 1996,
• Lampert, Laurence, Nietzsche's Teaching: An Interpretation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986,
• Lampert, Laurence, Nietzsche and Modern Times: A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993,
• Lampert, Laurence, Leo Strauss and Nietzsche, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996,
• Lampert, Laurence, Nietzsche's Task: An Interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001
• Lavrin, Janko, Nietzsche: An Approach, London: Methuen, 1948,
• Lemm, Vanessa, " Nietzsche´s Animal Philosophy : Culture, Politics, and the Animality of the Human Being " New York : Fordham University Press, 2009,
• Liebert, Georges, Nietzsche and Music, translated by David Pellauer and Graham Parkes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004,
• Leiter, Brian, Nietzsche on Morality, London: Routledge, 2002,
• Levine, Peter, Nietzsche and the Modern Crisis of the Humanities, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995,
• Lomax, J. Harvey, Paradox of Philosophical Education: Nietzsche's New Nobility and the Eternal Recurrence in Beyond Good and Evil, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2003,
• Löwith, Karl, From Hegel to Nietzsche: the Revolution in Nineteenth Century Thought, New York: Columbia University Press, 1991,
• Löwith, Karl, Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same, Berkeley: University of California Press. 1997,
• MacIntyre, Alasdair, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981,
• MacIntyre, Alasdair, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988,
• MacIntyre, Alasdair, Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990,
• Magnus, Bernd, Nietzsche's Existential Imperative. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978,
• Magnus, Bernd; Stewart, Stanley; and Mileur, Jean-Pierre. Nietzsche's Case: Philosophy As/And Literature, New York: Routledge, 1993,
• Mandel, Siegfried, Nietzsche & the Jews, New York: Prometheus Books, 1998,
• Mencken, Henry L., The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, California: The Noontide Press, 1982 ], The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. --> Download PDF here
• Miklowitz, Paul S. Hegel, Nietzsche, and the End of Philosophy, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998,
• Montinari, Mazzino. Reading Nietzsche, trans. Greg Whitlock, University of Illinois Press, 2003,
• Montinari, Mazzino. "The Will to Power" does not exist (Sigrid Oloff-Montinari original Italian edition Centro Montinari (Italian))
• Moore, Gregory, Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002,
• Müller-Lauter, Wolfgang, Nietzsche: His Philosophy of Contradictions and the Contradictions of his Philosophy, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999,
• Nehamas, Alexander, Nietzsche: Life as Literature, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985,
• Oliver, Kelly, Womanizing Nietzsche: Philosophy's Relation to the “Feminine.” New York and London: Routledge, 1995,
• Olsen, Lance, Nietzsche's Kisses, Tallahassee: Fiction Collective Two, 2006,
• Parkes, Graham, Composing the Soul: Reaches of Nietzsche's Psychology. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994,
• Pletch, Carl, Young Nietzsche: Becoming a Genius. New York: Free Press, 1991,
• Porter, James I., Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000,
• Porter, James I., The Invention of Dionysus: An Essay on The Birth of Tragedy, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000,
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• Reginster, Bernard, The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006,
• Richardson, John, Nietzsche's System. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996,
• Richardson, John, Nietzsche's New Darwinism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004,
• Rosen, Stanley, , New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995
• Rosen, Stanley, The Question of Being: A Reversal of Heidegger, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993,
• Safranski, Ruediger, , translated by Shelley Frisch. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002,
• Sallis, John, Crossings: Nietzsche and the Space of Tragedy, Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1991,
• Salomé, Lou, Nietzsche, ed. and trans. Siegfried Mandel. Redding Ridge, Connecticut: Black Swan Books, Ltd., 1988,
• Santayana, George, Egotism in German Philosophy, New York: Haskell House Publishers Ltd., 1971
• Santaniello, Weaver, Zarathustra's Last Supper: Nietzsche's Eight Higher Men, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2005,
• Santaniello, Weaver, "Nietzsche, God, and the Jews", Albany: SUNY Press, 2004,
• Schaberg, William H., The Nietzsche Canon: A Publication History and Bibliography. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996,
• Schacht, Richard, Nietzsche, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985,
• Schacht, Richard, Making Sense of Nietzsche: Reflections Timely and Untimely, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995,
• Schain, Richard, The Legend of Nietzsche's Syphilis. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001,
• Schrift, Alan D., Nietzsche and the Question of Interpretation: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction, New York: Routledge, 1990,
• Schrift, Alan D., Nietzsche's French Legacy: A Genealogy of Poststructuralism, New York: Routledge, 1995,
• Shapiro, Gary, Nietzschean Narratives. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989,
• Simmel, Georg, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991,
• Sloterdijk, Peter, Thinker on Stage: Nietzsche's Materialism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989,
• Small, Robin, Nietzsche in Context, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2001,
• Small, Robin, Nietzsche and Rée: A Star Friendship. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005,
• Solomon, Robert C., Living With Nietzsche: What the Great “Immoralist” Has to Teach Us. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003,
• Sorgner, Stefan Lorenz: Metaphysics without Truth - On the Importance of Consistency within Nietzsche’s Philosophy. In der Buchreihe Münchner Philosophische Beiträge, herausgegeben von N. Knoepffler, W. Vossenkuhl, S. Peetz und B. Lauth, Utz Verlag, München 1999.
• Stack, George J., Nietzsche's Anthropic Circle: Man, Science, and Myth, Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2005,
• Stambaugh, Joan, Nietzsche's Thought of Eternal Return, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972,
• Stambaugh, Joan, The Problem of Time in Nietzsche, Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1987,
• Stambaugh, Joan, The Other Nietzsche, New York: State University of New York Press, 1994,
• Steinbuch, Thomas, A Commentary on Nietzsche's Ecce Homo. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1994,
• Steiner, Rudolf, Friedrich Nietzsche: Fighter for Freedom, New York: Spiritual Science Library, 1985,
• Stern, J. P. A Study of Nietzsche, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981,
• Nietzsche and Asian Thought
• Strathern, Paul, "The Essential Nietzsche", Virgin Books Ltd., 2002,
• Strong, Tracy B., Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration (Expanded Edition), Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988,
• Tanner, Michael, "Nietzsche", Oxford University Press, 1994,
• Tejera, V., Nietzsche and Greek Thought, Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1987,
• Vattimo, Gianni, Dialogue with Nietzsche, New York: Columbia University Press, 2006,
• Waite, Geoff, Nietzsche's Corps/E: Aesthetics, Politics, Prophecy, or, The Spectacular Technoculture of Everyday Life, Durham: Duke University Press, 1998,
• Wallis, Glenn, Nietzsche NOW!The Great Immoralist on the Vital Issues of Our Time, New York, Warbler Press, 2024,
• White, Alan, Within Nietzsche's Labyrinth. New York and London: Routledge, 1990,
• Wilcox, John T., Truth and Value in Nietzsche, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1974,
• Young, Julian, Nietzsche's Philosophy of Art, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992,
• Young, Julian, Nietzsche's Philosophy of Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006,
• Zuckert, Catherine H., Postmodern Platos: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, Derrida, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996,
• Zupančič, Alenka, The Shortest Shadow. Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003,

Collections

• I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite!': Friedrich Nietzsche and the Anarchist Tradition, ed. John Moore, New York: Autonomedia, 2004,
• Looking after Nietzsche, ed. Laurence A. Rickels, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1990
• Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition, ed. Paul Bishop, Camden House, 2004,
• Modern Critical Views: Friedrich Nietzsche, ed. Bloom, Harold, New York, New Haven, Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987
• Nietzsche, eds. Richardson, John, and Leiter, Brian, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001
• Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Robert C. Solomon, Garden City: Anchor Books, 1973
• Nietzsche: A Critical Reader, ed. Peter R. Sedgwick, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Limited, 1995
• Nietzsche and the Rhetoric of Nihilism eds. Tom Darby, Bela Egyed, and Ben Jones, Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1989
• Nietzsche as Postmodern: Essays Pro and Contra, ed. Clayton Koelb, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1990
• Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, ed. Richard Schacht, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1994
• Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism? On the Uses and Abuses of Philosophy, eds. Jacob Golomb and Robert S. Wistrich, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002
• Nietzsche: Imagery & Thought ed. Malcolm Pasley, London: Methuen, 1978
• Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics, eds. Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991
• Nietzsche's “On the Genealogy of Morals”: Critical Essays, ed. Acampora, Christa Davis, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006
• Reading Nietzsche, eds. Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins, New York: Oxford University Press, 1990
• Studies in Nietzsche and the Judaeo-Christian Tradition, eds. James C. O'Flaherty, Timothy F. Sellner, and Robert M. Helm, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985
• Studies in Nietzsche and the Classical Tradition, eds. James C. O'Flaherty, Timothy F. Sellner, and Robert M. Helm, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979
• The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche, eds. Magnus, Bernd, and Kathleen M. Higgins, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996
• The New Nietzsche, ed. David B. Allison, New York: Delta, 1977
• Why We are not Nietzscheans, eds. Luc Ferry and Alain Renault, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991
• Why Nietzsche Still? Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics, ed. Alan D. Schrift, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000
• Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche's Educator, ed. Janaway, Christopher, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998

Journals about Nietzsche

• The Agonist: A Nietzsche Circle Journal
• The Journal of Nietzsche Studies
• Nietzscheforschung
• Nietzsche-Studien: Internationales Jahrbuch für die Nietzsche-Forschung
• New Nietzsche Studies

Film and television

• Beyond Good and Evil (1977)
• When Nietzsche Wept
  • novel
  • film (2007)
• Nietzsche's Kisses

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nietzsche: A Selected Annotated Bibliography . https://web.archive.org/web/20241111050739/https://www.nypl.org/node/5654 . 11 November 2024 . .