Philosophical Writings: Friedrich Nietzsche

Reinhold Grimm is on the board of The Germany Library and lives in Riverside, CA.

• Introduction: Reinhold GrimmPART I: ON TRAGEDYThe Birth of Tragedy; or, Greekness and Pessimisn (1872/86)Attempt at a Self-CriticismPreface to Richard Wagner[The Birth of Tragedy]From Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (1888, published posthumously)The Birth of TragedyFrom the so-called Will to PowerArt in "The Birth of Tragedy" (1888)Translated by Walter KaufmannPART II: ON TRUTHFrom Five Prefaces to Five Unwritten BooksOn the Pathos of Truth (1872)Translated by Bruce ArmstrongOn Truth and Falsity in Their Extramoral Sense (1873)Translated by Maximilian A. MüggePART III: APHORISMS, ESSAYS, NOTESFrom Untimely Meditations and Related WritingsOn the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life (1874) (Selection)Translated by Adrian CollinsSchopenhauer as Educator (1874) (Selection)Translated by J.W. Hillesheim and Malcolm R. SimpsonThe Battle between Science and Wisdom (1875; fragmentary) (Selections)Translated by Bruce ArmstrongRichard Wagner in Bayreuth (1876) (Selections)Translated by Anthony M. LudoviciFrom Human, All-Too-Human: A Book for Free Spirits (1878)Of First and Last Things (Selections)Concerning the History of Moral Sentiments (Selections)The Religious Life (Selections)From the Soul of Artists and Authors (Selections)Signs of Higher and Lower Culture (Selections)Man in Society (Selection)Man Alone by Himself (Selection)Translated by Helen ZimmernFrom Human, All-Too-Human IIMixed Opinions and Maxims (1879) (Selections)The Wanderer and His Shadow (1880) (Selections)Translated by Paul V. CohenFrom Dawn: Thoughts about Morality as a Prejudice (1881) (Selections)Translated by J.M. KennedyFrom The Gay Science (1882/87)Books I-III (Selections)Sanctus Januarius (Selections)We Fearless Ones (Selections)Translated by Walter KaufmannFrom Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1886)PrefaceOn the Prejudices of Philosophers (Selections)The Free Spirit (Selections)Maxims and Interludes (Selections)Concerning the Natural History of Morals (Selections)We Scholars (Selections)What Is Noble? (Selections)Translated by Walter KaufmannFrom On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic (1887)Preface (Selection)What Is the Meaning of Ascetic Ideals? (Selections)Translated by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale)From The Case of Wagner: A Musician's Problem (1888)PrefaceTranslated by Walter KaufmannFrom Twilight of the Idols; or, How One Philosophizes with a Hammer (1888)Maxims and Arrows (Selection)The Problem of Socrates"Reason" in PhilosophyHow the "True World" Finally Became a Fable: The History of an ErrorSkirmishes of an Untimely Man (Selections)What I Owe to the AncientsTranslated by Walter KaufmannFrom Nietzsche contra Wagner: From the Files of a Psychologist (1888)We AntipodesEpilogueTranslated Walter KaufmannFrom Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (1888, published posthumously)Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and NoneGenealogy of Morals: A PolemicWhy I am a DestinyTranslated by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. HollingdaleFrom The Antichrist: Curse upon Christianity (1888) (Selection)Translated by Walter KaufmannFrom the so-called Will to Power (Summer 1883-Spring/Summer1888)Translated by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. HollingdaleNotesSources of the Selections