Friedrich_Nietzsche - Untimely_Meditations_(Cambridge_Texts_in_the_History_of_Philosophy__1997)

Further readingAdditional early, unpublished material on Schopenhauer, teleology,the origin of language and problems of perception is translatedby Claudia Crawford in the appendix to The Beginnings ofNietzsche's Theory of Language (Berlin and New York, de Gruyter,1988). For his letters, see Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche, ed. andtrans. Christopher Middleton (Chicago, University of ChicagoPress, 1969) .The standard biography is Carl Paul Janz's three-volumeFriedrich Nietzsche Biographie (Munich, Hanser, 1979) . In English,see R. J. Hollingdale' s Nietzsche: The Man and his Philosophy (BatonRouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1965) and RonaldHayman, Nietzsche: A Critical Life (Oxford and New York, OxfordUniversity Press, 1980). Also valuable is William H. Schaberg's TheNietzsche Canon: A Publication History and Bibliography (Chicago andLondon, University of Chicago Press, 1995), a detailed account ofthe origin, publication and contemporary reception of each ofNietzsche's published wrItings.The critical and interpretative literature about Nietzsche is vast,varied and intractable. A good place to start is The CambridgeCompanion to Nietzsche, ed. Bernd Magnus and Kathleen M.Higgins (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996). WalterKaufmann's classic Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, and Antichrist(4th edn., Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1974) remainsessential. Valuable too are R. J. Hollingdale's Nietzsche (New Yorkand London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973) and ArthurDanto's Nietzsche as Philosopher (New York, Macmillan, 1965).In comparison with the literature devoted to his later writings,the secondary literature on the writings of the Basel period ingeneral and on the Untimely Meditations in particular is relativelylimited. Though David Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer attractedmore public comment from his contemporaries than any of theother Meditations, it has been almost completely neglected bymodern commentators. An exception is Robert John Ackermann,who, in the second chapter of his Nietzsche: A Frenzied Look(Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1990), begins hisanalysis of Nietzsche's 'style' with a discussion of Strauss.Nietzsche's view of history and his treatment of it in the secondUntimely Meditation has been explored by many authors. For someexamples of recent scholarship in this area, see Catherine Zuckertin 'Nature, History and the Self: Friedrich Nietzsche's "UntimelyConsiderations''', Nietzsche-Studien, 5 (1976), 55- 82. See ch. 1 ofxli