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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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Philosophical & Philological Writings
  Homer and Classical Philology
1869, “Homer und die klassische Philologie”.
  The Future of our Educational Institutions
1872, “Gedanken über die Zukunft unserer Bildungsanstalten”.
  The Birth of Tragedy (trns. W. Kaufmann)
  The Birth of Tragedy (trns. Ian Johnston)
1872, “Die Geburt der Tragödie”.
  On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
1873, “Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinn”.
  We Philologists (trns. J. M. Kennedy)
1874, “Wir Philologen”.
  Untimely Meditations I
1873, “David Strauss: der Bekenner und der Schriftsteller”.
  Untimely Meditations II
1874, “Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil der Historie für das Leben”.
  Untimely Meditations III
1874, “Schopenhauer als Erzieher”.
  Untimely Meditations IV
1876, “Richard Wagner in Bayreuth”.
  Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
1878, “Menschliches, Allzumenschliches”.
  Assorted Opinions and Maxims
1879, “Vermischte Meinungen und Sprüche”.
  The Wanderer and His Shadow
1880, “Der Wanderer und sein Schatten”.
  Daybreak: On the Prejudices of Morality
1881, “Morgenröte”.
  The Gay Science
1882, “Die fröhliche Wissenschaft”.
  Thus Spake Zarathustra (trns. T. Common)
1883, “Also sprach Zarathustra”.
  Beyond Good and Evil (trns. Ian Johnston)
  Beyond Good and Evil (trns. Helen Zimmern)
1886, “Jenseits von Gut und Böse”.
  On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic
1887, “Zur Genealogie der Moral”.
  The Wagner Case: A Musician’s Problem
1888, “Der Fall Wagner”.
  The Antichrist (trns. W. Kaufmann)
  The Antichrist (trns. H.L. Mencken)
1888, “Der Antichrist”.
  Ecce Homo
1888, “Ecce Homo: Wie man wird, was man ist”.
  Nietzsche Contra Wagner (trns. W. Kaufmann)
1888, “Aktenstücke eines Psychologen”.
  Twilight of the Idols (trns. W. Kaufmann)
1889, “Götzen-Dämmerung”.
  The Will To Power
1889, “Der Wille zur Macht”.


Poetic Writings
  Idylls From Messina
1882, “Idyllen aus Messina”.
  Dionysus Dithyrambs:
I
, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX.
1889, “Dionysos-Dithyramben”.


Letters, 1865-1889.

  1865, 1866, 1867, 1869, 1878:  I, II, III,
  1879, 1880, 1881:  I, II, III, IV, V, VI.
  1882:  I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII,
XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXV, XXXVI, XXXVII, XXXVIII, XXXIX.
  1883:  I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII.
  1884:  I, II, III, IV, V, VI.
  1885:  I, II, III.
  1886:  I, II, III, IV.
  1887:  I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII.
  1888:  I, II, III, IV, V. VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI,
XII, XIII, XIV, XV.
  1889:  I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI,
XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX.


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Naumburg, October 5, 1879: Letter to Heinrich Köselitz (Peter Gast)

[...] You won't believe how faithfully I have been putting into practice my plan to do without thinking. And with good reason, since “behind every thought lurks the devil” of a furious attack of pain. The manuscript [The Wanderer and His Shadow] you received from St. Moritz was purchased so dearly that perhaps no one who could have done otherwise would have written it at that price. Even now I shudder when I remember it, especially when I read the longer sections. All of it, save for a few lines, was conceived while walking, and outlined in pencil in six little notebooks. Reworking it was almost always torture. I had to pass up about two dozen rather lengthy trains of thought, important ones at that, because I never found the time to extract them from that ghastly scrawl,—just like the summer before. And I tend to forget how my thoughts were connected. [...] Reading your transcript, I find it very difficult to understand myself. My head is so tired. [....]

Again in all honesty, I regard you as better and more gifted than I am, and hence under far greater obligation. At your age I was investigating with boundless zeal the origins of an eleventh-century dictionary and the sources of Diogenes Laertius, and had no notion of myself as someone who had any right to entertain, never mind put forward, any far-ranging views of his own. Even now I feel like the most feckless fledgling. Being alone and ill has inured me somewhat to the “shamelessness” of my writings. But others must do it all better, my life as well as my thought.— Don't answer this. [....]

 




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