Friedrich Nietzsche bibliography


This is a list of writings and other compositions by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

Works by Nietzsche

Writings

Aus meinem Leben, 1858 Über Musik, 1858 Napoleon III als Praesident, 1862 Fatum und Geschichte, 1862 Willensfreiheit und Fatum, 1862 Kann der Neidische je wahrhaft glücklich sein?, 1863 Über Stimmungen, 1864 Mein Leben, 1864 Homer und die klassische Philologie, 1868 Über die Zukunft unserer Bildungsanstalten, 1872 Fünf Vorreden zu fünf ungeschriebenen Büchern, 1872 comprising:Die Geburt der Tragödie, 1872 Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinn, 1873 Die Philosophie im tragischen Zeitalter der Griechen, 1873 Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen comprising:Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, 1878 Vermischte Meinungen und Sprüche, 1879 Der Wanderer und sein Schatten, 1880 Morgenröte, 1881 Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, 1882, 1887 Also sprach Zarathustra, 1883-5 Jenseits von Gut und Böse, 1886 Zur Genealogie der Moral, 1887 Der Fall Wagner, 1888 Götzen-Dämmerung, 1888 Der Antichrist, 1888 Ecce Homo, 1888Nietzsche contra Wagner, 1888Der Wille zur Macht, first published 1901

Major English translations

''The Greek Music Drama'', 1870

The Greek Music Drama, trans. Paul Bishop, intro by Jill Marsden. Contra Mundum Press, 2013,

''The Birth of Tragedy'', 1872

''The Untimely Meditations'', 1873–6

''Human, All Too Human'', 1878

''The Dawn'', 1881

  • as: 'Daybreak', trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Cambridge University Press, 1997,
  • as: 'Dawn', trans. Brittain Smith, Stanford University Press, 2011,

''The Gay Science'', 1882, 1887

  • trans. Walter Kaufmann, Vintage, 1974,
  • ed. Bernard Williams, trans. Josefine Nauckhoff and Adrian Del Caro, Cambridge University Press, 2001,
  • as: 'The Joyous Science', trans. R. Kevin Hill, Penguin Random House, 2018,
  • as 'The Joyful Science / Idylls from Messina / Unpublished Fragments from the Period of The Joyful Science ', trans. Adrian Del Caro, Stanford University Press, 2023,

''Thus Spoke Zarathustra'', 1883–5

''Beyond Good and Evil'', 1886

  • trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Penguin Classics, 1973,
  • in: 'Basic Writings of Nietzsche', trans. Walter Kaufmann, Modern Library, 2000,
  • trans. Judith Norman, Cambridge University Press, 2001,
  • in: 'Beyond Good and Evil / On the Genealogy of Morality', trans. Adrian Del Caro, Stanford University Press, 2014,

''On the Genealogy of Morals'', 1887

  • in: 'The Birth of Tragedy & the Genealogy of Morals', trans. Francis Golffing, Anchor Books, 1956,
  • in: 'Basic Writings of Nietzsche', trans. Walter Kaufmann, Modern Library, 2000,
  • in: 'On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo', trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale, Vintage, 1989,
  • in: 'On the Genealogy of Morality and Other Writings', trans. Carol Diethe, Cambridge University Press, 1994,
  • as 'On the Genealogy of Morals', trans. Douglas Smith, Oxford University Press, 1996,
  • as 'On the Genealogy of Morality', trans. Maudemarie Clark and Alan J. Swensen, Hackett Publishing Company, 1998,
  • in: 'Beyond Good and Evil / On the Genealogy of Morality', trans. Adrian Del Caro, Stanford University Press, 2014,

''The Case of Wagner'', 1888

''Twilight of the Idols'', 1888

  • in: 'The Portable Nietzsche', trans. Walter Kaufmann, Penguin, 1977,
  • trans. Richard Polt, Hackett Publishing Company, 1997,
  • in: 'Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ', trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Penguin Classics, 1990,
  • in: 'The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols and Other Writings', trans. Judith Norman, Cambridge University Press, 2005,
  • trans. Duncan Large, Oxford World's Classics, Oxford University Press, 1998, Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophize with a Hammer. Translation by Daniel Fidel Ferrer. Free online. Also, Includes letters and notes about Twilight of the Idols by Nietzsche.
  • in: The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner, The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 9, trans. Adrian Del Caro and others. Stanford University Press, 2021. Hardcover ; Paperback

''The Antichrist'', 1888

  • in: 'Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ', trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Penguin Classics, 1990,
  • in: 'The Portable Nietzsche', trans. Walter Kaufmann, Penguin, 1977,
  • in: 'The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols and Other Writings', trans. Judith Norman, Cambridge University Press, 2005,
  • in: The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner, The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 9, trans. Adrian Del Caro and others. Stanford University Press, 2021. Hardcover ; Paperback
  • in: 'The Antichrist + Fragments from a Shattering Mind: Exterminating Texts and Terminal Ecstasies', trans. Domino Falls, Solar Books, 2007,
  • as 'The Anti-Christ', trans. H. L. Mencken, See Sharp Press, 1999,
  • trans. Anthony M. Ludovici, Prometheus Books, 2000,

''Ecce Homo'', 1888

  • trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Penguin Books, 1993,
  • in: 'Basic Writings of Nietzsche', trans. Walter Kaufmann, Modern Library, 2000,
  • in: 'The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols and Other Writings', trans. Judith Norman, Cambridge University Press, 2005,
  • in: The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner, The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 9, trans. Adrian Del Caro and others. Stanford University Press, 2021. Hardcover ; Paperback
  • trans. Duncan Large, Oxford World's Classics, Oxford University Press, 2007, Nietzsche’s Ecce homo, Notebooks and Letters: 1888-1889 / Translation by Daniel Fidel Ferrer. Free at archive.org https://archive.org/details/ferrer-ecce-homo-translation-2023-nov

''Nietzsche contra Wagner'', 1888

  • in: 'The Portable Nietzsche', trans. Walter Kaufmann, Penguin, 1977,
  • in: 'The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols and Other Writings', trans. Judith Norman, Cambridge University Press, 2005,
  • in: The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner, The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 9, trans. Adrian Del Caro and others. Stanford University Press, 2021. Hardcover ; Paperback

''The Will to Power'' and other posthumous collections

The Will to Power, ed. and trans. Walter Kaufmann, Vintage, 1968, Writings from the Late Notebooks, ed. Rüdiger Bittner, Cambridge University Press, 2003, Philosophy and Truth: Selections from Nietzsche's Notebooks of the Early 1870s, ed. and trans. Daniel Breazeale, Prometheus Books, 1990, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, trans. Marianne Cowan, Regnery Publishing, 1996, The Pre-Platonic Philosophers, trans. Greg Whitlock, University of Illinois Press, 2001, Nietzsche’s notebook of 1881: The Eternal Return of the Same. July 2021.  Translation by Daniel Fidel Ferrer. Free online. Nietzsche's Last Notebooks 1888-1889. June 2012. Translation by Daniel Fidel Ferrer. Free online.
  • . June 2012. Translation by Daniel Fidel Ferrer. Free online. Nietzsche’s Lenzer Heide Notes on European Nihilism. July 2020. Translation and essays by Daniel Fidel Ferrer. Free online.Nietzsche’s seven notebooks from 1876. 2020. Translation by Daniel Fidel Ferrer. Free online.Nietzsche’s Last Twenty Two Notebooks: complete January 2021. Translation by Daniel Fidel Ferrer. Free online.
  • , five lectures given in 1872., The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Volume 11. Translation. Richard T. Gray. . Hardcover. Paperback The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Volume 12. Translation. Gary Handwork. . Hardcover. Paperback The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Volume 13. Translation. J. M. Baker, Jr. and Christiane Hertel . Hardcover. Paperback The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 14. Translation: Paul S. Loeb and David F. Tinsley. Hardcover. Paperback The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 15. Translation: Paul S. Loeb and David F. Tinsley. Hardcover. Paperback The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 16. Translation: Adrian Del Caro. Hardcover. Paperback The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 17. Translation: George H. Leiner. Hardcover. Paperback Writings from the Early Notebooks. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Philology

Analecta Laertiana Beitrage zur Quellenkunde und Kritik des Laertius Diogenes De Fontibus Diogenis Laertii Über die alten hexametrischen Nomen Über die Apophthegmata und ihre SammlerÜber die literarhistorischen Quellen des Suidas
  • ''Über die Quellen der Lexikographen''

Poetry

Idyllen aus Messina written 1882 Dionysos-Dithyramben, written 1888, published 1892
  • in: The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner, The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 9, trans. Adrian Del Caro and others. Stanford University Press, 2021. Hardcover ; Paperback The Peacock and the Buffalo: The Poetry of Nietzsche, Published July 8, 2010Dionysian DithyrambsNietzsche’s Last Twenty Two Notebooks: complete January 2021. Translation by Daniel Fidel Ferrer. Free online. See notebook number 20, there are 168 notes and are almost all poems or poem fragments. 20 summer 1888. Note the German title: 20 = W II 10a. Sommer 1888. Octave booklet. Binding: black cover. Red color cut on all sides. 212 pages. Dating from December 1888 to early January 1889. Written by Nietzsche about halfway; partly from front to back, partly from back to front.

Music

Allegretto, for piano, before 1858, Hoch tut euch auf, chorus, December 1858Einleitung, piano duetPhantasie, piano duet, December 1859Miserere, chorus for 5 voices, summer 1860Einleitung, oratorio on piano, December 1861Hüter, ist die Nacht bald hin?, chorus Presto, piano duetOverture for Strings Aus der Tiefe rufe ich String Quartet Piece Schmerz ist der Grundton der Natur Einleitung, orchestral overture for pianoMein Platz vor der Tur, NWV 1, solo voice and piano, autumn 1861, Heldenklage, piano, 1862Klavierstuck, pianoUngarischer Marsch, pianoZigeunertanz, pianoEdes titok, pianoAus der Jugendzeit, NWV 8, solo voice and piano, summer 1862, So lach doch mal, piano, August 1862Da geht ein Bach, NWV 10b, Im Mondschein auf der Puszta, piano, September 1862Ermanarich, piano, September 1862Mazurka, piano, November 1862Aus der Czarda, piano, November 1862, Das zerbrochene Ringlein, NWV 14, May 1863, Albumblatt, piano, August 1863Wie sich Rebenranken schwingen, NWV 16, summer 1863, voice and piano, Nachlang einer Sylvestenacht, duet for violin and piano, January 2, 1864, Beschwörung, NWV 20, Nachspiel, NWV 21, Ständchen, NWV 22Unendlich, NWV 23, Verwelkt, NWV 24, Ungewitter, NWV 25, 1864, Gern und gerner, NWV 26, Das Kind an die erloschene Kerze, NWV 27, Es winkt und neigt sich, NWV 28, Die junge Fischerin, NWV 29, voice and piano, June 1865, O weint um sie, choir and piano, December 1865Herbstlich sonnige Tage, piano and 4 voices, April 1867Adel Ich muss nun gehen, 4 voices, August 1870Das "Fragment an sich", piano, October 1871Kirchengeschichtliches Responsorium, chorus and piano, November 1871Manfred-Meditation, 1872, final ver. 1877, Monodie à deux, piano, February 1873Hymnus an die Freundschaft, piano, December 29, 1874, Gebet an das Leben, NWV 41, solo voice and piano, 1882, text by Lou Andreas-Salome, Hymnus an das Leben, chorus and orchestra, summer 1887

Journals ''about'' Nietzsche

'The Journal of Nietzsche Studies