Philosophical Writings

Introduction: Reinhold Grimm

PART I: ON TRAGEDY
The Birth of Tragedy; or, Greekness and Pessimisn (1872/86)
Attempt at a Self-Criticism
Preface to Richard Wagner
[The Birth of Tragedy]

From Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (1888, published posthumously)
The Birth of Tragedy

From the so-called Will to Power
Art in "The Birth of Tragedy" (1888)
Translated by Walter Kaufmann

PART II: ON TRUTH
From Five Prefaces to Five Unwritten Books
On the Pathos of Truth (1872)
Translated by Bruce Armstrong
On Truth and Falsity in Their Extramoral Sense (1873)
Translated by Maximilian A. M¼gge

PART III: APHORISMS, ESSAYS, NOTES
From Untimely Meditations and Related Writings
On the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life (1874) (Selection)
Translated by Adrian Collins
Schopenhauer as Educator (1874) (Selection)
Translated by J.W. Hillesheim and Malcolm R. Simpson
The Battle between Science and Wisdom (1875; fragmentary) (Selections)
Translated by Bruce Armstrong
Richard Wagner in Bayreuth (1876) (Selections)
Translated by Anthony M. Ludovici

From 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 Zimmern

From Human, All-Too-Human II
Mixed Opinions and Maxims (1879) (Selections)
The Wanderer and His Shadow (1880) (Selections)
Translated by Paul V. Cohen

From Dawn: Thoughts about Morality as a Prejudice (1881) (Selections)
Translated by J.M. Kennedy

From The Gay Science (1882/87)
Books I-III (Selections)
Sanctus Januarius (Selections)
We Fearless Ones (Selections)
Translated by Walter Kaufmann

From Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1886)
Preface
On 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 Kaufmann

From 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)
Preface
Translated by Walter Kaufmann

From Twilight of the Idols; or, How One Philosophizes with a Hammer (1888)
Maxims and Arrows (Selection)
The Problem of Socrates
"Reason" in Philosophy
How the "True World" Finally Became a Fable: The History of an Error
Skirmishes of an Untimely Man (Selections)
What I Owe to the Ancients
Translated by Walter Kaufmann

From Nietzsche contra Wagner: From the Files of a Psychologist (1888)
We Antipodes
Epilogue
Translated Walter Kaufmann

From Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (1888, published posthumously)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic
Why I am a Destiny
Translated by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale

From The Antichrist: Curse upon Christianity (1888) (Selection)
Translated by Walter Kaufmann

From the so-called Will to Power (Summer 1883-Spring/Summer1888)
Translated by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale

Notes

Sources of the Selections