Paul Bishop 
A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche 
Life and Works

An advanced introduction for students and a re-orientation for Nietzsche scholars and intellectual historians on the development of his thought and the aesthetic construction of his identity as a philosopher.






Nietzsche looms over modern literature and thought; according to Gottfried Benn, ‚everything my generation discussed, thought through innerly; one could say: suffered; or one could even say: took to the point of exhaustion — allof it had already been said . . . by Nietzsche; all the rest was just exegesis.‘ Nietzsche’s influence on intellectual life today is arguably as great; witness the various societies, journals, and websites and the steady stream ofpapers, collections, and monographs. This
Companion offers new essays from the best Nietzsche scholars, emphasizing the interrelatedness of his life and thought, eschewing a superficial biographical method but taking seriously his claim that great philosophy is ‚the self-confession of its author and a kind of unintended and unremarked
memoir.‘

Each essay examines a major work by Nietzsche; together, they offer an advanced introduction for students of German Studies, philosophy, and comparative literature as well as for the lay reader. Re-establishing the links between Nietzsche’s philosophical texts and their biographical background, the volume alerts Nietzschescholars and intellectual historians to the internal development of his thought and the aesthetic construction of his identity as a philosopher.


Contributors: Ruth Abbey, Keith Ansell-Pearson, Rebecca Bamford, Paul Bishop, Thomas H. Brobjer, Daniel W. Conway, Adrian Del Caro, Carol Diethe, Michael Allen Gillespie and Keegan F. Callanan, Laurence Lampert, Duncan Large, Martin Liebscher, Martine Prange, Alan D. Schrift.


Paul Bishop is William Jacks Chair of Modern Languages at the University of Glasgow.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – Paul Bishop

Nietzsche’s Early Writings – Thomas Brobjer

The Birth of Tragedy – Adrian Del Caro

Untimely Meditations – Duncan Large

Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits – Ruth Abbey

Daybreak – Rebecca Bamford

The Gay Science – Keith Ansell-Pearson

Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Laurence Lampert

Beyond Good and Evil – Martine Prange

On the Genealogy of Morals – Michael Gillespie and Martin Liebscher

The Case of Wagner and Nietzsche contra Wagner – Daniel Conway

Twilight of the Idols – Carol Diethe

The Anti-Christ – Martin Liebscher

Ecce Homo – Paul Bishop

Dithyrambs of Dionysos – Paul Bishop

Nietzsche’s Nachlass – Alan Schrift

Conclusion

Notes on the Contributors

Index

Über den Autor

Paul Bishop is Professor of German and Head of Department of German at the University of Glasgow.