 | Nietzsche: Volumes One and Two (Nietzsche, Vols. I & II) by Martin Heidegger
Buy new: $22.45 / Used from: $15.95 Excellent. The true beginning of serious philosophical interest in Nietzsche. But Beware! Heidegger has his own fish to fry...
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 | Nietzsche: Vols. 3 and 4 (Vol. 3: The Will to Power as Knowledge and as Metaphysics; Vol. 4: Nihilism) by Martin Heidegger
Buy new: $21.60 / Used from: $9.82 And he, in a largely unwarranted manner, has imposed on our reading of Nietzsche an obession with onto/meta/theo/epistimo/etcetero concerns that aren't really present in Nietzsche.
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 | Leo Strauss and Nietzsche by Laurence Lampert
Buy new: $23.00 / Used from: $17.07 Excellent. Contains a commentary on 'Note on the Plan of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil' by Strauss. Also contains the essay by Strauss. A wonderful place to learn of political esotericism.
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 | The Mask of Enlightenment: Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Modern European Philosophy) by Stanley Rosen
Buy used from: $9.88 Excellent. The wisest anti-Nietzschean. While you're at it also read 'The Question of Being: A Reversal of Heidegger' which also contains a great deal on Nietzsche. Rosen knows many things...
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 | Nietzsche's Task: An Interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil by Professor Laurence Lampert
Buy new: $27.00 / Used from: $18.23 But Lampert knows one big thing. Nietzsche is laying the groundwork, behind the scenes and beteween the lines, for the rise of a new religion! Excellent. See especially 1st 3 chapters of BGE.
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 | Nietzsche's Teaching: An Interpretation of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Professor Laurence Lampert
Buy new: $22.50 / Used from: $10.00 Excellent. "Enactment of the Nietzschean agenda in science and politics promises a new sense of the sacred, a return of Dionysos and Ariadne." Or, as Nietzsche said, from time to time there is magic.
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 | Nietzsche and Modern Times: A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche by Laurence Lampert
Buy new: $46.00 / Used from: $15.59 Excellent. Lamperts first book. It treats Bacon and Descartes as Esoteric writers whose interventions led to the necessity of Nietzsche's intervention.
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 | The Question of Being: A Reversal of Heidegger by Stanley Rosen
Buy new: $27.00 / Used from: $30.39 Excellent. Rosen opposes both Heidegger and Nietzsche (though by no means does he consider these two the same) with Plato. A Plato, however, informed (or formed) by Nietzsche.
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 | The Problem of Time in Nietzsche by Joan Stambaugh
Buy used from: $244.90 Excellent. I wasn't aware of the importance of this work until recently. If you want to see the foundations of the Nietzschean 'metaphysics' of power, chaos and return, this is the book for you.
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 | Nietzsche and Philosophy (Columbia Classics in Philosophy) by Gilles Deleuze
Buy new: $14.41 / Used from: $5.10 Excellent. This book begins an important strain of Pomo Nietzscheanism - Power, Chaos, Recurrance. But not entirely unpolitical, note his interest in active and reactive forces.
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 | Nietzsche’s Corps/e: Aesthetics, Politics, Prophecy, or, the Spectacular Technoculture of Everyday Life (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Geoff Waite
Buy used from: $8.96 Excellent. The only intelligent, informed left critique of Nietzsche that I have ever seen. He sees through the playful postmodern interpretation and gets to the political heart - Who should rule?
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 | Nihilism Before Nietzsche by Michael Allen Gillespie
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $16.00 Superb. Metculously traces the evolution of nihilism (the unmoored Will) thru Ockham, Descartes, Fichte, + various novelists until we see the culmination in N of an argument begun in scholasticism.
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 | New Nietzsche: Contemporary Styles of Interpretation
Buy new: $29.00 / Used from: $5.96 Superb. This is where, at least in America, we first learned of the postmodern Nietzsche. An important collection. See especially Jean Granier, whose Nietzsche has never been translated into English.
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 | Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle by Pierre Klossowski
Buy new: $25.65 / Used from: $16.14 Very good. An early non-Straussian discussion of Nietzsche's esotericism, the 'conspiracy' of the eternal return. See the 6th chapter 'Viscious Circle as Selective Doctrine' and read it through.
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 | Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same by Karl Löwith
Buy new: $60.00 / Used from: $25.00 Very good. Lowith is a student of Heidegger. Also see his 'From Hegel to Nietzsche' which is also very good. Best known in this country for his argument with Blumenberg about the genesis of the modern
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 | Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Eperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche by Jacques Derrida
Buy new: $19.65 / Used from: $2.24 Good. If you want the Postmodern Nietzsche of dance + mask sans purpose + politics this is the book you want to read; Dionysus + pointless deconstruction. But Nietzsche speaks of purpose everywhere...
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 | Nietzsche and Greek Thought (Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library) by V. Tejera
Buy new: $121.00 / Used from: $29.99 Good. Tejera is a non-Straussian (better said, an anti-Straussian) and not a postmodern who gives superb close readings of texts. Unfortunately, this ends up as another aesthetic reading of Nietzsche.
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 | Nietzsche's Dangerous Game: Philosophy in the Twilight of the Idols (Modern European Philosophy) by Daniel W. Conway
Buy new: $39.99 / Used from: $29.50 Good. Tends to overdo the importance of decadence for the esoteric strategies of chapter 5. The reason that Nietzsche needs help to make his world is that no one can entirely control the future...
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 | Nietzsche: The Body and Culture : Philosophy As Philological Genealogy by Eric Blondel
Buy used from: $14.00 Good. A semi-pomo discussion of the interesction of body and culture in the texts of Nietzsche but still quite informative.
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 | Thinker On Stage: Nietzsche's Materialism (Theory and History of Literature) by Peter Sloterdijk
Buy new: $25.50 / Used from: $15.00 Good. I recently had opportunity to glance at this again after many years and it is an anti-metaphysical materialism that largely misses the philosophical politics.
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 | Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy (Modern European Philosophy) by Maudemarie Clark
Buy new: $58.00 / Used from: $29.92 Good. An important, if not the most important, work on Nietzsche's understanding of truth.
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 | Nietzsche and Metaphor by Sarah Kofman
Buy new: $28.95 / Used from: $19.90 Good. Another important postmodern understanding of Nietzsche, but again, without philosophical politics.
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 | Paradox of Philosophical Education: Nietzche's New Nobility and the Eternal Recurrence in Beyond Good and Evil by J. Harvey Lomax
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $11.95 Good. A reading informed by esotericism, but by ignoring, or perhaps I should say exoterically downplaying, deadly purpose in Nietzsche Lomax ends up with an aesthetic reading.
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 | Nietzsche: Life as Literature by Alexander Nehamas
Buy new: $23.40 / Used from: $6.92 Good, as an example. Demonstrates how the clever aesthetes have misread Nietzsche as encouraging them to do what they would have been doing anyway: striking empty poses and speaking fabulous cliches.
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 | Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist by Walter A. Kaufmann
Buy new: $14.64 / Used from: $5.98 The old standby. Very important in its time to disassociate Nietzsche from the Nazis. His translations are very good. See his Portable Nietzsche and Basic Writings of Nietzsche for Z, BGE, GM and EH.
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