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A representative sampling of Neitzsche’s thought can be found in The Portable
Nietzsche,edited by Walter A. Kaufmann (New York: Viking Press, 1968). The best
general introduction to Nietzsche’s thought remains Walter A. Kaufmann,Nietzsche:
Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968).
Recent overviews include Graham Parke,Composing the Soul(Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1994); John Richardson,Nietzsche’s System(Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1995); Michael Tanner,Nietzsche(Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1995); Ronald Hayman,Nietzsche(London: Routledge, 1999); Brian Leiter,
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Nietzsche on Morality(London: Routledge,
2002); Robert C. Solomon,Living with Nietzsche: What the Great “Immoralist” Has
to Teach Us(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003); and R. Kevin Hill,Nietzsche:
A Guide for the Perplexed(London: Continuum, 2007). Ivo Frenzel,Friedrich
Nietzsche: An Illustrated Biography,translated by Joachim Neugroschel (New York:
Pegasus, 1967); and Sander L. Gilman, ed.,Conversations with Nietzsche: A Life in
the Words of His Contemporaries,translated by David J. Parent (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1987), provide general biographies, whereas H.F. Peters,
Zarathustra’s Sister: The Case of Elisabeth and Friedrich Nietzsche(New York:
Crown, 1977), presents a fascinating history of the expropriation of Nietzsche’s
thought in the service of German anti-Semitism. Jacob Golomb and Robert S.
Wistrich, eds.,Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism?: On the Uses and Abuses of a
Philosophy(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002) present essays on the same
topic. Walter A. Kaufmann,Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Buber(New York: McGraw-
Hill, 1980); Allan Megill,Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault,
Derrida(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985); and Paul S. Miklowitz,
Metaphysics to Metafictions: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the End of Philosophy(Albany,
NY: SUNY Press, 1999) show the connections between Nietzsche and other impor-
tant thinkers, whereas Ishay Landa,The Overman in the Marketplace: Nietzschean
Heroism in Popular Culture(Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009) shows how
Nietzsche’s ideas have played out in popular culture. For collections of critical
essays, see Robert C. Solomon, ed.,Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays
(Garden City, NY: Anchor Doubleday, 1973); Harold Bloom, ed.,Friedrich
Nietzsche(New York: Chelsea House, 1987); Richard Schacht, ed.,Nietzsche,
Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche’sOn the Genealogy of Morals (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1994); Peter Sedgwick, ed.,Nietzsche: A Critical
Reader(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995); Bernd Magnus and Kathleen Higgins,The
Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1996); Kelly Oliver and Marilyn Pearsall, eds.,Feminist Interpretations of Nietzsche
(College Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998); Daniel W. Conway,
Nietzsche: Critical Assessments, four volumes (London: Routledge, 1998); Richard
White, ed.,Nietzsche(New York: Ashgate, 2001); Ken Gemes and Simon May, eds.,
Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009); and
Tracy Strong, ed.,Friedrich Nietzsche(Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009). Finally,
Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins, eds.,Reading Nietzsche(New York:
Oxford University Press, 1988) provide helpful introductory essays on several of
Nietzsche’s works, while Daniel W. Conway,Nietzsche’s Dangerous Game:
Philosophy in theTwilight of the Idols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1997) focuses on Nietzsche’s later work.
