Nietzsche: A Selected Annotated Bibliography

Bibliographies

Weimarer Nietzsche-Bibliographie.  comp.  Susanne Jung, et. al. (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2000-2002).   JFL 00-502

This is the most comprehensive bibliography on Nietzsche including over 20,000 citations dating from 1867 to 1998.  Volume 1 lists Nietzsche’s works, including translations into 42 languages, and volumes 2 through 5, the secondary literature.

International Nietzsche Bibliography. ed.  Herbert W. Reichert and Karl Schlechta. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968).  *RB-YBX (Nietzsche)'

An important guide to the secondary literature, listing more than 4,500 titles in 27 languages. An expanded edition for the period 1968-72 was published in Nietzsche-Studien, v.2, 1973: 320-39.  This has been superseded by the Weimarer Nietzsche-Bibliographie.

Babich, Babette.  “Nietzsche and Music: Selective Bibliography.” New Nietzsche Studies, 1:1/2, 1996, 64-78.  JFK 00-74

Babich, Babette.  “Nietzsche, Classic Philology and Ancient Philosophy: A Research Bibliography.” New Nietzsche Studies, 4:1/2, 2000, 171-91.  JFK 00-74

Hollingdale, R.J. “‘The Birth of Tragedy’: A Checklist of Criticism, 1872-1972.” The Malahat Review, 24, 1972, 177-182.  L -11 2431

Kaufmann, Walter.  Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist, 4^th ed. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980).  *R-YBX (Nietzsche) (Kaufmann, W.A. Nietzsche)

Kaufmann’s book includes a useful annotated bibliography.

Kummel, Richard Frank. Nietzsche und der deutsche Geist.  (Berlin; New York: de Gruyter, 1998.  (Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung, 3, 9, 40). 3 vols.   JFL 99-85

 An exhaustive, annotated, three-volume bibliography which traces the influence of Nietzsche’s works on German thought from 1867 to 1945.    Newspaper articles, diaries, and correspondence are included in the almost 5,700 items listed. 

Löwith, Karl.  “On the History of the Interpretation of Nietzsche (1894-1954).” in Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same.  trans. J. Harvey Lomax.  (Berkelely: University of California Press, 1997).  JFE 99-9334

An annotated bibliography limited to those authors who have focused on the problem of the eternal recurrence in Nietzsche.

Schaberg, William H.  The Nietzsche Canon: A Publication History and Bibliography.     (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).  JFE 96-2609

Schaberg gives a detailed publication history of Nietzsche’s works and his relationship with his publishers.  He also provides a detailed bibliography of all the editions of Nietzsche’s works that Nietzsche had published.

Vattimo, Gianni.  Nietzsche: An Introduction.  (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001).  JFD 02-17513

An excellent introduction to Nietzsche that includes a fine, international bibliography of works about him.