Nietzsche and After

How Nietzsche's thought, which began from Schopenhauer and Wagner, was read in diverging ways after his death: his sister's archive and the Nazi appropriation, Russian God-building and the critiques of Lenin, Lukács and the Frankfurt School, Heidegger and existentialism, and French post-structuralism. Click a node to open its dictionary entry or person card.

1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 From Schopenhauer to Nietzsche The right's appropriation Socialist and anarchist reception and critique Philosophy of life, existential philosophy The French Nietzsche the break of 1876–1878 the sister takes the papers the compilation dismantled Lenin's critique the critique of irrationalism Heidegger's student the Sartre–Camus quarrel of 1952 genealogy taken up Habermas's critique A pessimism that grounds the world in blind will. Reading it in 1865 turned Nietzsche to philosophySchopenhauer,The Worldas Will andRepresentation1819 (read by Nietzsche in 1865) Friendshipwith Wagner1868–1876 The Birthof Tragedy1872 The GayScience:the deathof God1882 (Book V, 1887) Thus SpokeZarathustra1883–1885 Beyond Goodand Evil1886 On theGenealogyof Morality1887 The first university lectures on Nietzsche, which called his thought 'aristocratic radicalism'Brandes'sCopenhagenlectures1888 After his breakdown in January 1889 he wrote nothing more until his death in Weimar in 1900Collapse inTurin, thesilentyears1889–1900 Published the notebooks in the order written, dismantling the sister's compilation The Will to PowerTheColli–Montinaricriticaledition1967– TheNietzscheArchive(Elisabeth)1894–1945 ThecompilationThe Will toPower1901 (enlarged 1906) Mussolini,'ThePhilosophyof Force'1908 Spengler,The Declineof the West1918–1922 TheConservativeRevolution1918–1933 Baeumler:the Nazireading ofNietzsche1931 Jünger, TheWorker1932 Theanarchists'Nietzsche(Landauer,Goldman)1890s–1910s Gorky andthe RussianreceptionofNietzsche1890s–1900s God-building(Lunacharsky,Gorky)1907–1913 Lenin,MaterialismandEmpirio-criticism1909 Horkheimerand Adorno,DialecticofEnlightenment1944 (published 1947) Placed Nietzsche in a lineage of German irrationalism running from Schelling to HitlerLukács, TheDestructionof Reason1954 Habermas,ThePhilosophicalDiscourseofModernity1985 Philosophyof life1880s–1930s Heidegger,Being andTime1927 Jaspers,Nietzsche1936 Read Nietzsche as the last metaphysician, in whom Western metaphysics is completedHeidegger'sNietzschelectures1936–1940 (published 1961) Löwith,From HegeltoNietzsche1941 Sartre,Being andNothingness1943 Existentialism1940s–1950s Camus, TheRebel1951 Bataille:reclaimingNietzschefrom thefascists1937–1945 Deleuze,NietzscheandPhilosophy1962 Derrida anddeconstruction1967– Foucault,'Nietzsche,Genealogy,History'1971 Post-structuralism1960s–1980s
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