Friedrich Nietzsche: Sources
Interested in learning about Nietzsche’s life and philosophy, but do not know where to start from and where to find appropriate sources? Here is a list of suggestions for you. I hope you’ll find them useful. If you think there is some entry missing, please contact me.
Online Texts
Encyclopedia Entries
Web Pages on Nietzsche
Videos and Radio Programs
Associations Around the World
Journals and Main Volumes on Nietzsche and His Philosophy
Online Texts
- The Nietzsche Source, a web page containing all German texts of Nietzsche’s published works and a wealth of unpublished materials as well. Very helpful.
- Nietzsche’s Features, a site containing several central texts of Nietzsche.
- Nietzsche Online, not a free resource, but a very handy one for more in-depth research. New updates every year.
Encyclopedia Entries
- Nietzsche’s entry at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, organized following the different phases of his life.
- Nietzsche’s entry at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, organized following the concepts and topics central to his philosophy.
- Nietzsche’s entry at the Britannica Online Encyclopedia.
- Nietzsche’s entry at the New World Encyclopedia.
- Nietzsche’s page at the Free Online Library, containing also biographical data and website suggestions.
Web Pages on Nietzsche
- The Nietzsche Circle that, as the page itself states, was started with the intent "to create an intellectual and artistic community whereby individuals of Geist and vision may come together and explore Nietzsche’s philosophy."
- Brian Leiter’s Nietzsche Blog, with useful updates and news from the field of Nietzsche’s studies.
- The Nietzsche Chronicle, containing detailed biographical information.
- Nietzsche Quotes, a website with new quotes every day from Nietzsche. Quite exciting!
- The Perspectives of Nietzsche, an original website containing Nietzsche’s views (spelled out by means of selected quotes) on a few topics of interest, such as Christianity, Truth and Knowledge, Apollonian and Dionysian.
Videos and Radio Programs
- Beyond Good and Evil, a BBC show from 1999.
- Professor Walter Kaufma’s lesson on Professor Nietzsche and the Crisis of Philosophy, a BBC show from 1999.
- A public domain list of Nietzsche’s audiobooks.
Associations Around the World
- The website of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, founded in 1990.
- The website of the North American Nietzsche Society, with information about most recent publications, call for papers and events related to the figure of Nietzsche.
- The website of the German Nietzsche society, the Hietzsche Haus in Naumburg. It’s in German.
- The website of the Swiss Nietzsche society, the Nietzsche Haus in Sils-Maria.
- The website of the Brazilian Nietzsche society, the Grupo de Estudos Nietzsche.
Journals and Main Volumes on Nietzsche and His Philosophy
- The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, "an international, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing the best philosophical research about and related to the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche."
- Babich, Babette E, 1994, Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science. Albany: State University of New York Press
- Danto, Arthur C, 1965, Nietzsche as Philosopher: An Original Study. New York: Columbia University Press
- Deleuze, Gilles, 1962, Nietzsche and Philosophy, trans. Hugh Tomlinson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983
- Leiter, Brian, 2002, Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche on Morality. London: Routledge
- Leiter, Brian, and Neil Sinhababu (eds.), 2009, Nietzsche and Morality. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Mabille, Louise, 2009, Nietzsche and the Anglo-Saxon Tradition. London: Continuum International Publishing Group
- Moore, Gregory, 2002, Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Parkes, Graham (ed.), 1991, Nietzsche and Asian Thought. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
- Scott, Jacqueline, and A. Todd Franklin (eds.), 2007, Critical Affinities: Nietzsche and African American Thought. Albany: State University of New York Press
- Small, Robin, 2001, Nietzsche in Context. London: Ashgate Publishing
- Solomon, Robert C., 2003, Living With Nietzsche: What the Great “Immoralist” Has to Teach Us. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Young, Julian, 2010, Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press