Concise Readings, Cambridge Nietzsche

### Set texts

Nietzsche, Friedrich, Beyond Good and Evil, translated by J. Norman, edited by R.-P. Horstmann and J. Norman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). Other suitable editions include those translated by R. J. Hollingdale (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961), and by Walter Kaufmann (New York: Random House, 1966).

Nietzsche, Friedrich, The Birth of Tragedy, translated by R. Speirs, edited by R. Geuss and R. Speirs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). [This is the preferred edition. Other suitable editions include those translated by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale (New York: Vintage, 1967), and by F. Golffing (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956).]

Nietzsche, Friedrich, On the Genealogy of Morality, translated by C. Diethe, edited by K. Ansell-Pearson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994; rev. ed. 2007). Another suitable translation is that translated by Maudmarie Clark and Alan Swensen (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1998), which has a good introduction.

### General books

Clark, Maudemarie, Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).

Gemes, Ken, and John Richardson, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). [Especially the excellent chapter on Nietzsche and the Greeks by Jessica Berry, and very good essays on Nietzsche's ethics and aesthetics]

Richardson, John, Nietzsche's System (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).

Safranski, Rudiger, Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography (London: Granta, 2003).

Young, Julian, Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

### Selected topics

The lists below specify relevant sections of Nietzsche’s text followed by some suggestions for secondary reading. The secondary reading is divided into three classes as shown by the letter preceding the author's name: **'A' indicates introductory material and 'B' the main secondary reading.**

### Tragedy and the aesthetic view of life

Nietzsche, Friedrich, *The Birth of Tragedy*.

[A] Ridley, Aaron, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Nietzsche on Art (Abingdon: Routledge, 2007), ch. 1 'Redemption through art: *The Birth of Tragedy*'.

[B] Came, Daniel, 'The Aesthetic Justification of Existence', in K. Ansell-Pearson, ed., A Companion to Nietzsche (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 39-57.

[B] Schacht, Richard, 'Making Life Worth Living: Nietzsche on Art in the Birth of Tragedy', in his Making Sense of Nietzsche (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 1995), pp. 129-52. Reprinted in J. Richardson and B. Leiter, eds., *Nietzsche* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 186-209.

[B] Silk, Michael S., and Joseph P. Stern, Nietzsche on Tragedy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).

### Truth and perspectivism

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 'On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense', in his The Birth of Tragedy: And Other Writings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 139-53.

Nietzsche, Friedrich, Beyond Good and Evil, especially Part 1.

Nietzsche, Friedrich, On the Genealogy of Morality, Essay 3, § 12.

[A] Leiter, Brian, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Nietzsche on Morality (London: Routledge, 2002; 2nd ed. 2014), pp. 13-23 and 264-79 (1st ed.); pp. 11-18 and 11-23 (2nd ed.).

[B] Clark, Maudemarie, Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), chs. 4 & 5.

[B] Leiter, Brian, 'Perspectivism in Nietzsche's *Genealogy of Morals*', in R. Schacht, ed., Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994), pp. 334-57.

### Will to power

Nietzsche, Friedrich, Beyond Good and Evil, esp. Part I.

Nietzsche, Friedrich, On the Genealogy of Morality, esp. Essay II.

[A] Leiter, Brian, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Nietzsche on Morality. 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 197-203 and 58-61. [These page references only apply to the second edition of this book.]

[B] Clark, Maudemarie, Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), ch. 7 'The will to power'.

[B] Katsafanas, Paul, 'Deriving Ethics from Action: A Nietzschean Version of Constitutivism', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 83, no. 2 (2011): 620-60.

[B] Richardson, John, Nietzsche’s System (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), esp. ch. 1.

[B] Also see the exchanges between Clark and Richardson in: International Studies in Philosophy, 32, no. 3 (2000): 107-17 (Richardson), and 119-35 (Clark); and in International Studies in Philosophy, 39, no. 3 (2007): 117-33 (Clark), and 135-47 (Richardson).

### Genealogy as a philosophical method

Nietzsche, Friedrich, On the Genealogy of Morality.

Nietzsche, Friedrich, Beyond Good and Evil, esp. Part V.

[B] Foucault, Michel, 'Nietzsche, Genealogy, History', in P. Rabinow, ed., The Foucault Reader (New York: Pantheon Books, 1971/1984), pp. 76-100. Reprinted in J. Richardson and B. Leiter, eds., Nietzsche (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 341-60.

[B] Geuss, Raymond, 'Nietzsche and Genealogy', in his Morality, Culture and History: Essays in German Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 1-28. Reprinted in J. Richardson and B. Leiter, eds., Nietzsche (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp.322-40.

[B] Schacht, Richard, ed., Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994). [Part II, esp. essays by Hoy, Nehamas, MacIntyre, and Conway]

### Nietzsche's critique of morality

Nietzsche, Friedrich, On the Genealogy of Morality.

Nietzsche, Friedrich, Beyond Good and Evil, esp. Part V.*[A] Leiter, Brian, 'Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy', in E.N. Zalta, ed., Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 edition) [Online]. Available at: [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-moral-political](http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-moral-political) (Accessed: 8 August 2019).

[B] Janaway, Christopher, Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

[B] Leiter, Brian, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Nietzsche on Morality (London: Routledge, 2002; 2nd ed., 2014).

[B] Schacht, Richard, Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994), 1-107. [Essays by Foot, Clark, Bergmann, Bittner, Nussbaum and Soll]

### Free will and 'Becoming who one is'

Nietzsche, Friedrich, Beyond Good and Evil.

Nietzsche, Friedrich, On the Genealogy of Morality.

[B] Gemes, Ken, and Simon May, eds., Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

[B] Nehamas, Alexander, 'How One Becomes What One Is', Philosophical Review, 92, no. 3 (1983): 385-417.

[B] Leiter, Brian, 'The Paradox of Fatalism and Self-Creation in Nietzsche', in C. Janaway, ed., Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche’s Educator (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 217-57. Reprinted in Richardson, J. and Leiter, B., eds., *Nietzsche* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).