The Birth of Tragedy
His first book bears the influence of Schopenhauer and Wagner; the 1886 preface criticizes several of its assumptions.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Dare to question the obvious.
Röcken · Basel · an itinerant Europe
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Catalogue of books published or prepared by Nietzsche and several independent posthumous essays. The four Untimely Meditations and the two supplements to Human, All Too Human have separate records. Critical editions of juvenilia, lectures, notebooks, poems and letters form documentary corpora: this catalogue does not claim to enumerate every manuscript item or reissue.
Explore letters and fragmentsDavid Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer
Written after the Franco-Prussian War, it distinguishes military victory from cultural achievement.
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The essay challenges historical scholarship's dominance in German education.
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The third Untimely Meditation also projects the young Nietzsche's aspirations into its portrait of Schopenhauer.
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Written for the first Bayreuth festival, this celebration was later reconsidered by Nietzsche.
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Initially dedicated to Voltaire, the book marks a distancing from Wagner and Schopenhauer.
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Published separately in 1879, it became the first part of Human, All Too Human II in 1886.
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Issued in late 1879 with an 1880 date; incorporated into Human, All Too Human II in 1886.
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These investigations prepare the genealogical inquiries without yet adopting their essay form.
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The 1882 edition contains four books; the 1887 edition adds a preface, a fifth book and the Songs of Prince Vogelfrei.
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The first three parts appeared in 1883–1884; the fourth was privately printed in 1885.
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Published after Zarathustra, this prelude to a philosophy of the future gives several of its problems a more argumentative form.
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Written to clarify Beyond Good and Evil, the method joins philology, historical hypotheses and psychology through reconstructions that remain disputed.
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The provocative comparison with Bizet's Carmen serves an aesthetic and physiological polemic.
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Written in 1888 and published in 1889, the book condenses diagnoses without offering a neutral system summary.
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Completed in 1888 and published in 1895 through a complicated editorial history; its violent language demands precision.
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Written in 1888, published posthumously in 1908; critical editions address a history of omissions and interventions.
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Prepared in December 1888 and published in 1889; this dossier is not correspondence between the two men.
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Prepared in 1888 and published in 1891 after Nietzsche's collapse, the cycle reworks several songs first spoken by characters in Zarathustra.
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An unpublished 1873 essay; it should not automatically be treated as Nietzsche's final doctrine.
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An unfinished 1873 manuscript; its portraits do not replace critical editions of the Presocratics.
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Delivered in Basel in 1872, the five lectures belong to an unfinished project on the purposes of education and the institutions responsible for it.
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Given to Cosima Wagner in 1872; these prefaces do not announce five completed but lost books.
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A short 1873 polemical intervention preserved as an independent eKGWB text.
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Published in 1882; several were revised for the Songs of Prince Vogelfrei added to The Gay Science in 1887.
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Privately printed in 1871, a distinct stage before The Birth of Tragedy.
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The first of two public Basel lectures on tragedy in 1870, this text precedes the printed book and preserves its initial theatrical comparisons.
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Second Basel lecture, delivered on 1 February 1870 and later revised, with its own textual identity.
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A preparatory 1870 essay distinct from the 1872 book and preserved posthumously.
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The manuscript names June 1870; proximity to The Dionysian Worldview does not erase its distinct textual status.
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A 1873 document of the Wagnerian movement preserved among posthumous writings, not a major finished treatise.
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An editorial corpus of dated items, not a single work Nietzsche designed as a whole.
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An academic corpus edited from publications and manuscripts, distinct from completed philosophical books.
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Colli–Montinari editions restore chronological organization; numbering identifies notebook and fragment, not a continuous treatise.
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Critical editions distinguish sent and received letters, drafts and documents; a translated selection is not the complete correspondence.
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The 1901 and 1906 versions differ; Nietzsche considered projects under this title but did not finish the book published in this form.
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