Nietzsche: A Selected Annotated Bibliography

Nietzsche’s Influence

Aschheim, Steven E.  The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 1890-1990.  (Berkeley: University of Californina Press, 1993). JFE 93-12857

Aschheim makes no attempt to explain what Nietzsche means, but rather restricts himself to tracing all the different ways Nietzsche has been understood.  To this end, he examines the history of Nietzsche’s reception in Germany and the adoption of his ideas by every major social, political and intellectual movement.

Behler, Ernst.  “Nietzsche in the twentieth century,” The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche.  ed. Bernd Magnus and Kathleen Higgins.  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 281-322.  *R-YBX (Nietzsche) 96-6086

A lucid history of how Nietzsche has been interpreted by philosophers in the 20^th century.