INTRODUCTIONS TO NIETZSCHE Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) is one of the most important philosophers of the last two hundred years, whose writings, both published and unpublished, have had a formative influence on vir- tuallyallaspectsofmodernculture.Thisvolumeoffersintroductory essaysonallofNietzsche’scompletedworksandalsohisunpublished notebooks.Theessaysaddresssuchtopicsashiscriticismofmorality and Christianity, his doctrines of the will to power and the eternal recurrence, his perspectivism, his theories of tragedy and nihilism, and his thoughts on ancient and modern culture. Written by inter- nationally recognized scholars, they provide the interested reader withanup-to-dateandauthoritativeoverviewofthethoughtofthis fascinatingfigure. robert b. pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy, and the Chair of the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, at the University of Chicago. His publicationsincludeThePersistenceofSubjectivity(Cambridge,2005), Hegel’sPracticalPhilosophy(Cambridge,2008),Nietzsche,Psychology and First Philosophy (2010), Hollywood Westerns and American Myth (2010), and Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in Hegel’s PhenomenologyofSpirit(2010). INTRODUCTIONS TO NIETZSCHE edited by ROBERT B. PIPPIN cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,Tokyo,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb28ru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107007741 (cid:2)c CambridgeUniversityPress2012 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. 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Contents Notetothereader pagevii ChronologyofNietzsche’slifeandworks viii Introduction 1 RobertPippin 1 Nietzsche:Writingsfromtheearlynotebooks 17 AlexanderNehamas 2 Nietzsche:TheBirthofTragedy 44 RaymondGeuss 3 Nietzsche:UntimelyMeditations 67 DanielBreazeale 4 Nietzsche:Human,AllTooHuman 91 RichardSchacht 5 Nietzsche:Daybreak 112 MaudemarieClarkandBrianLeiter 6 Nietzsche:TheGayScience 137 BernardWilliams 7 Nietzsche:ThusSpokeZarathustra 152 RobertPippin 8 Nietzsche:BeyondGoodandEvil 178 Rolf-PeterHorstmann 9 Nietzsche:OntheGenealogyofMorality 199 KeithAnsell-Pearson v vi Contents 10 Nietzsche:TheAnti-Christ,EcceHomo,Twilight oftheIdols 215 AaronRidley 11 Nietzsche:Writingsfromthelatenotebooks 240 Ru¨digerBittner Selectbibliography 264 Index 287 Note to the reader The essays in this volume originally appeared as introductions to the editionsofNietzsche’sworkswhicharepublishedintheseriesCambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. They were brought together in this singlevolumeinordertogivetheinterestedreaderarichandwide-ranging overview of Nietzsche’s philosophical thought. The Press is grateful to the authors of these essays for permission to reproduce them. The select bibliography,whichisconvenientlyorganizedbytheme,hasbeencreated especiallyforthevolumeandaimstoofferausefulresourcetoaccompany theessays. vii Chronology of Nietzsche’s life and works 1844 FriedrichWilhelmNietzschebornon15OctoberinRo¨cken, inthePrussianprovinceofSaxony 1849 Hisfatherdies(attheageof36) 1858–64 Attends the classics-oriented boarding-school Schulpforta; playsthepianoandcomposes 1864 EntersBonnUniversitytostudyclassicallanguagesandliter- atures 1869 Associate professor of classical philology (before even com- pletinghisPh.D.)attheSwissuniversityatBasel 1870 Full professor at Basel; enlists as a medical orderly in the Franco-PrussianWar,contractingseriousillnesses 1872 FirstbookTheBirthofTragedyappears(andismetwithschol- arlyderision)–hisonlymajorclassicalstudiespublication 1873–4 Publishes the first three Untimely Meditations, including the essays On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life and SchopenhauerasEducator 1876 Writes a fourth Meditation in homage to Wagner, but his enthusiasmforWagnercools 1878 ThefirstvolumeofHuman,AllTooHuman(638aphorisms) appears; Wagner sends him Parsifal, and their estrangement deepens 1879 Resigns (with pension) from his position at Basel, incapa- citated by health problems; begins spending his summers in theSwissEngadineregion,andhiswintersinnorthernItaly, livinginboarding-houses 1879–80 WritestwosequelstoHuman,AllTooHuman,subsequently publishedasthetwopartsofitssecondvolume(another758 aphorisms) viii