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Nietzsche’s world-view has been called “a system in aphorisms.”1 However, general agreement as to the nature of this system does not exist, due partly to the aphoristic genre itself. In fact, unanimity as to whether Nietzsche did in fact have a system does not exist either.2 In consequence, the meaning and importance attributed to the major themes within Nietzsche’s alleged system — overman, revaluation of values, the will-to-power, the eternal recurrence — have been the subject of spirited and prolonged debate.
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Karl Löwith, Nietzsches Philosophie der ewigen Wiederkehr des Gleichen(Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1956), p. 15.
Karl Schlechta (ed.), Friedrich Nietzsche, Werke in drei Bänden (München: Hanser, 1960) “Nachwort” p. 1436: “Nietzsche hat kein ‘System’.”
The first edition of Nietzsche’s collected works was begun in 1894 and completed in 1901, in fifteen volumes. The last and complete edition of the Grossoktavausgabe was produced in 1926. The first edition is conventionally called the Naumann edition of the Grossoktav ausgabe, the second the Kröner edition. Since the pages of both editions virtually coincide, no distinction will be drawn in referring to these volumes. The Grossoktav ausgabe itself will be referred to hereafter simply as the GOA.
GOA VIII Die Götzendämmerung, pp. 59–182.
GOA VIII Der Antichrist, pp. 213–332.
GOA VIII Nietzsche contra Wagner, pp. 183–212.
GOA Nachlass XV Der Wille Zur Macht.
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, Das Leben Friedrich Nietzsches (Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1904).
GOA Nachlass XV pp. 137–489, XVI.
GOA Register Band XX. Prepared by Richard Oehler.
GOA Nachlass XV pp. 1–136.
Nietzsche (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950), “The Nietzsche Legend.”
Nietzsche, Werke in drei Bänden (München: Hanser, 1960).
Ibid.
Ibid., vol. 3, pp. 415–927.
Ibid., vol. 3, pp. 1383–1432.
Ibid., vol. 3, pp. 1433–1454.
That Nietzsche had abandoned plans for The Will-to-Power has become a commonplace since first publicized by Walter A. Kaufmann in his Nietzsche (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950). The Musarionausgabe of Nietz sche’s collected works contains over twenty-five plans for the disputed The Will-to-Power (cf. XVIII, 335–361), as well as indications that Nietzsche intended to write a major work entitled Revaluation of all Values instead, whose first part was to have been the already published The Antichrist. (cf. Musarion ausgabe XVIII, 347 and XIX, 390–402).
There are more than forty-four distinct sections dealing with the eternal recurrence in the GOA Nachlass.
GOA I-VIII. Approximately ten uneven sections deal principally with the doctrine of eternal recurrence. Their length varies enormously.
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Magnus, B. (1970). Nietzsche’s Literary Estate. In: Heidegger’s Metahistory of Philosophy: Amor Fati, Being and Truth. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4879-7_1
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