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E-Texts

Online Versions of Texts Assigned in This Course

• Ecce Homo—selections (including Parts I, II, and IV), in the Walter Kaufmann translation.
• Ecce Homo—selections (including the Preface, Parts I and IV, and the reviews in Part III), in a translation “compiled from translations by Walter Kaufmann, R. J. Hollingdale, and Anthony M. Ludovici. Text amended in part by The Nietzsche Channel.”
• The Birth of Tragedy—the full text, “compiled from translations by Fracis Golffing and Walter Kaufmann.”
• The Gay Science—excerpts from the Walter Kaufmann translation (Preface, Book V, and the Appendix of Songs)
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra—the full text, in the Thomas Common translation.
• On the Genealogy of Morals—excerpts, from the translation by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale.
• The Twilight of the Idols—the full text, translator “unknown.”
• The Antichrist—the full text, in the H.L. Mencken translation.

Course-Related Links

General Resources

Nietzsche

• Introductory:
  • Friedrich Nietzsche—The article at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  • Nietzsche—The Nietzsche page at Garth Kemerling’s Philosophy Pages.
• Dedicated Sites:
  • Nietzsche’s Features— online texts plus a link to the complete works in German.
  • The Nietzsche Channel—more useful Nietzsche materials including, for those who might be interested, a good deal about (and a good deal of) Nietzsche’s music.
  • The Nietzsche Chronicle—a detailed timeline that contains a good deal of biographical information.

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