Selected List of
English Translations
of Nietzsche's Works
Unless otherwise noted, all quotations from Nietzsche's writings were newly
translated for this edition. The following selection is intended as a guide to the
available Nietzsche translations.
Collections of Works by Nietzsche
The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Edited by Oscar Levy. 18 vols. New
York: Macmillan, 1909-11. Reprint, New York: Russell & Russell, 1964.
Although quite comprehensive, this compilation by several translators is con-
sidered unreliable. The Philosophy of Nietzsche, edited by Geoffrey Give and pub-
lished as a Meridian paperback in 1965, contains selections from this edition.
7 he Portable Nietzsche. Translated and edited by Walter Kaufmann. New York:
Viking Press, 1954. Contains the full texts of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight of
the Idols, The Antichrist, and Nietzsche contra Wagner, as well as excerpts from addi-
tional texts and selected notebook entries and fragments.
Basic Writings of Nietzsche. Translated and edited by Walter Kaufmann. New
York: Modern Library, 1968.
Philosophy and Truth: Selections from Nietzsche's Notebooks if the Early 1870s.
Translated and edited by Daniel Breazeale. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.:
Humanities Press, 1979.
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