Nietzsche Citations
References to Nietzsche's writings are included in the body of the text using the standard English title abbreviations indicated below. With reference to translations, Roman numerals denote a standard subdivision within a single work in which the sections are not numbered consecutively (e.g., On the Genealogy of Morals), Arabic numerals denote the section number rather than the page number, and "P" denotes Nietzsche's Prefaces.
If a particular translation is used, this is indicated with an endnote to the initial citation reference.
References to the editions by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari take the following forms:
Kritische Gesamtausgabe (KGW)(Berlin: de Gruyter, 1967-) is cited by division number (Roman), followed by volume number (Arabic), followed by the fragment number.
Kritische Studienausgabe (KSA) (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1980) is cited by volume number (Arabic) followed by the fragment number.
Briefwechsel: Kritische Gesamtausgabe (KGB) (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1975-) is cited by division number (Roman), followed by volume number (Arabic), followed by page number.
Sämtliche Briefe: Kritische Studienausgabe (KSB) (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1986) is cited by volume number (Arabic) followed by page number.
References to Thus Spoke Zarathustra list the part number and chapter title, e.g., (Z:3 "The Convalescent")
References to Twilight of the Idols and Ecce Homo list abbreviated chapter title and section number, e.g., (TI "Ancients" 3) or (EH "Books" BGE:2).
References to texts in which sections are too long to be cited helpfully by section number cite section number then page number, e.g., (SE 3, p. 142), with the translation/edition endnoted.
| A | The Antichrist |
| AOM | Assorted Opinions and Maxims |
| BGE | Beyond Good and Evil |
| BT | The Birth of Tragedy |
| CW | The Case of Wagner |
| D | Daybreak / Dawn |
| DS | David Strauss, the Writer and the Confessor |
| EH | Ecce Homo [“Wise,” “Clever,” “Books,” “Destiny”] |
| FEI | “On the Future of our Educational Institutions” |
| GM | On the Genealogy of Morals |
| GOA | Nietzsches Werke (Grossoktavausgabe) |
| GS | The Gay Science / Joyful Wisdom |
| HC | “Homer’s Contest” |
| HCP | “Homer and Classical Philology” |
| HH | Human, All Too Human |
| HL | On the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life |
| KGB | Briefwechsel: Kritische Gesamtausgabe |
| KGW | Kritische Gesamtausgabe |
| KSA | Kritische Studienausgabe |
| KSB | Sämtliche Briefe: Kritische Studienausgabe |
| LR | “Lectures on Rhetoric” |
| MA | Nietzsches Gesammelte Werke (Musarionausgabe) |
| NCW | Nietzsche contra Wagner |
| PPP | Pre-Platonic Philosophers |
| PTA | Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks |
| RWB | Richard Wagner in Bayreuth |
| SE | Schopenhauer as Educator |
| TI | Twilight of the Idols [“Maxims,” “Socrates,” “Reason,” “World,” “Morality,” “Errors,” “Improvers,” “Germans,” “Skirmishes,” “Ancients,” “Hammer”] |
| TL | “On Truth and Lies in an Extramoral Sense” |
| UM | Untimely Meditations / Thoughts Out of Season |
| WDB | Werke in drei Bänden (Ed. Karl Schlechta) |
| WP | The Will to Power |
| WPh | “We Philologists” |
| WS | The Wanderer and his Shadow |
| Z | Thus Spoke Zarathustra |