Nietzsche commentary

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nietzsche Commentary is the short name for the historical and critical commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's works (Sigle: NK). It is a long-term project started in 2008 (duration: initially 15 years until the end of 2022) as part of the federal and state academy program ; it is located at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . The office is at the German Seminar of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

Goal setting

The aim of the Nietzsche Commentary is, for the first time, to provide comprehensive comments on all works published by Nietzsche or prepared for publication. Despite the enormous and worldwide influence of Nietzsche's thinking, there has been no comprehensive commentary on Nietzsche's works so far, only studies on individual of his publications. The Nietzsche Commentary seeks to remedy this desideratum by opening up Nietzsche's works in their historical context in a philosophical and intellectual history.

Structure, structure and organization

“The comment is intended to bring together, systematize and expand the existing research results. The explanations relating to individual parts of the text are put into a conceptual, structural, and historical context through introductory overview comments. Intensive context and source research is essential for this. "

The commentary volumes are arranged chronologically according to work complexes and are published by Verlag Walter de Gruyter (Berlin / Boston):

  • Vol. 1/1: The Birth of Tragedy, commented by Jochen Schmidt, published in 2012 ( ISBN 978-3-11-028692-2 )
  • Vol. 1/2: Outdated considerations I: David Strauss the confessor and the writer. II: The benefits and disadvantages of history for life, commented by Barbara Neymeyr , published 2020 ( ISBN 978-3-11-028682-3 )
  • Vol. 1/3: About truth and lies in the extra-moral sense, commented by Sarah Scheibenberger, published in 2016 ( ISBN 978-3-11-045873-2 )
  • Vol. 1/4: Untimely considerations III: Schopenhauer as an educator. IV: Richard Wagner in Bayreuth, commented by Barbara Neymeyr , published 2020 ( ISBN 978-3-11-067789-8 )
  • Vol. 2/1: Menschliches, Allzumenschliches I, commented by Andreas Urs Sommer, will appear in advance. 2023
  • Vol. 2/2: Menschliches, Allzumenschliches II, Mixed opinions and sayings, commented by Katharina Grätz, appears ahead of time. 2023
  • Vol. 2/3: Menschliches, Allzumenschliches II, The Wanderer and His Shadow, commented by Sebastian Kaufmann, appears ahead. 2023
  • Vol. 3/1: Morgenröthe, commented by Jochen Schmidt; Idylls from Messina, commented by Sebastian Kaufmann, published in 2015 ( ISBN 978-3-11-029303-6 )
  • Vol. 3/2 u. 3/3: The happy science, commented by Sebastian Kaufmann, appears ahead. 2020
  • Vol. 4/1: Commentary on Nietzsche's Also Spoke Zarathustra I and II, appears in advance. 2022 ( ISBN 978-3-11-029305-0 )
  • Vol. 4/2: Commentary on Nietzsche's Also Spoke Zarathustra II and IV, appears in advance. 2022 ( ISBN 978-3-11-029306-7 )
  • Vol. 5/1: Beyond good and bad, commented by Andreas Urs Sommer, published in 2016 ( ISBN 978-3-11-029307-4 )
  • Vol. 5/2: On the genealogy of morality, commented by Andreas Urs Sommer, published 2019 ( ISBN 978-3-11-029308-1 )
  • Vol. 6/1: The Wagner case. Götzen-Dämmerung, commented by Andreas Urs Sommer, published 2012 ( ISBN 978-3-11-028683-0 )
  • Vol. 6/2: The Antichrist. Ecce homo. Dionysus dithyrambs. Nietzsche contra Wagner, commented by Andreas Urs Sommer, published 2013 ( ISBN 978-3-11-029277-0 )

Several academic commentators and additional academic assistants are working on the Nietzsche Commentary. The Nietzsche Commentary was initiated and directed from 2008 to 2014 by the German scholar Jochen Schmidt ; the philosopher Andreas Urs Sommer has headed the research center since 2014 ; The literary scholars Katharina Grätz and Sebastian Kaufmann are the sub-project leaders. The theologian Gerd Theißen chairs the responsible scientific commission .

Volumes published so far

  • Jochen Schmidt: Commentary on Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy = Historical and Critical Commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's Works , Vol. 1/1. XXI + 456 pages. Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-028683-0 .
  • Barbara Neymeyr: Commentary on Nietzsche's Untimely Considerations. I. David Strauss the Confessor and the Writer. II. On the benefits and disadvantages of history for life = historical and critical commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's works , Vol. 1/2. XXV + 652 pages. Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2020, ISBN 978-3-11-028682-3 .
  • Sarah Scheibenberger: Commentary on Nietzsche's Ueber Truth and Lies in the Extra-Moral Sense = Historical and Critical Commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's Works , Vol. 1/3. XV + 137 pages. Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045873-2 .
  • Barbara Neymeyr: Commentary on Nietzsche's Untimely Considerations. III. Schopenhauer as an educator. IV. Richard Wagner in Bayreuth = historical and critical commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's works, vol. 1/4. XXV + 652 pages. Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2020. ISBN 978-3-11-067789-8 .
  • Jochen Schmidt and Sebastian Kaufmann: Commentary on Nietzsche's Morgenröthe. Idylls from Messina = historical and critical commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's works , vol. 3/1. XIII + 611 pages. Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-029303-6 .
  • Andreas Urs Sommer: Commentary on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil = Historical and critical commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's works , vol. 5/1. XVII + 939 pages. Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-029307-4 .
  • Andreas Urs Sommer: Commentary on Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals = Historical and Critical Commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's Works , Vol. 5/2. XVII + 723 pages. Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-029308-1 .
  • Andreas Urs Sommer: Commentary on Nietzsche's The Wagner Case. Twilight of the Idols = historical and critical commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's works , vol. 6/1. XVII + 698 pages. Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-028683-0 .
  • Andreas Urs Sommer: Commentary on Nietzsche's Der Antichrist. Ecce homo. Dionysus dithyrambs. Nietzsche contra Wagner = historical and critical commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's works , vol. 6/2. XXI + 921 pages. Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029277-0 .

reception

The previously published volumes of the Nietzsche Commentary have been received favorably in the press and in the professional world: “Three volumes open a new commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's works and thus set standards. [...] Thus, the commentary is an indispensable instrument not only for the European history of religion, for the history of science, but for religious studies as a whole. "" For the first time there is a scientifically high-ranking, precisely descriptive, seriously informative and highly informative Nietzsche commentary from a consistently humanistic, Enlightenment and democracy-affirming perspective. ”“ The enormous scientific achievement of the commentary can be seen exemplarily in the development of the “Birth of Tragedy”, Nietzsche's powerful, but also highly confusing, early work that requires a great deal of explanation. The commentary here reveals precisely and sharply defined the connections that otherwise tend to blur in Nietzsche's Dionysian intoxication. ”“ If the previous level can be maintained, a thorough reading of one of these probably 12 volumes would benefit almost every interpreter, let alone 'normal' reader , in the information, reflection and criticism level significantly: Nietzsche would be read differently and by far more astute. Thus the volumes of this commentary could also serve as stimulants for more careful and less naive, affirmative reading; Incidentally, not only with a view to Nietzsche's texts. ”“ Like the comment of Morgenröthe [...], the Idyllen commentary convinces with differentiated, historically far-reaching arguments and the [...] ability to sensitively trace conceptual connections and not oneself to lure Nietzsche on the wrong track through tricks and diversionary maneuvers. "" The commentary [...] has become an indispensable research tool for those who deal strictly scientifically with Nietzsche's philosophy. "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nietzsche commentary at the University of Freiburg
  2. ↑ Outline
  3. ↑ List of employees
  4. ^ NK at the Heidelberg Academy
  5. ↑ publisher's website
  6. ↑ Christoph Auffarth , in: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft , Vol. 21 (2013), Issue 2, pp. 273–279.
  7. ^ Humanistic press service October 15, 2013
  8. ↑ Ludger Lütkehaus , Born out of the spirit of criticism. The first comprehensive historical and critical Nietzsche commentary, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 7, 2013
  9. ↑ Hermann Josef Schmidt , review of vol. 3.1, part I, p. 3
  10. ↑ Hermann Josef Schmidt , review of vol. 3.1, part II, p. 96f.
  11. ↑ Jorge Luiz Viesensteiner and Antonio Edmilson Paschoal, review of Vol. 6/2, in: Nietzsche Studies 45 (2016), pp. 263–265

Web links

literature

  • Cord-Friedrich Berghahn: Review of NK 6/1 and NK 6/2, in: Zeitschrift für Germanistik. New series, vol. 23 (3/2013), p. 625 f.
  • Leonore Bazinek: Review of NK 3/1, in: Das Kursbuch der Luftschifffahrer des frei Geist, in: Nietzscheforschung 24 (2017), pp. 407-410.
  • Paul Bishop : Review of NK 1/1, 6/1 and 6/2, in: Journal of Nietzsche Studies 46 (1/2015), pp. 132-137.
  • Paul Bishop: Review of NK 3/1, in: Journal of European Studies 47/2 (2017), pp. 229–231.
  • Jeffrey Church: Historical and Critical Commentaries on Nietzsche, in: Nietzsche Studies 47 (2018), pp. 458–464, here pp. 463 f.
  • Soichiro Itoda: Report, among other things, on the lectures by Katharina Grätz and Sebastian Kaufmann at the Naumburg conference "Nietzsche und die Lyrik" (October 15-18, 2015) as well as on Andreas Urs Sommers commentary volumes NK 6/1 and NK 6/2 (in Japanese ), in: BUNGAKU Iwanami 5,6 (2016), pp. 277–287.
  • Till Kinzel: Reviews in IFB on NK 1/1 , NK 1/3 , NK 6/1 and NK 6/2 .
  • Andreas R. Klose: Review of NK 6/2, in: literaturkritik.de (10.2013) .
  • Ludger Lütkehaus : Collective review on NK 1/1, NK 6/1 and NK 6/2, in: Badische Zeitung (August 31, 2013) .
  • Eduardo Nasser: Review of NK 5/1, in: Discurso 48/2 (2018), pp. 203-205.
  • Christian Niemeyer : Review of NK 6/1, in: Nietzscheforschung 21 (2014), pp. 367–370.
  • Christian Niemeyer: The Heidelberg Nietzsche Commentary - Interim Assessment of a Mammoth Project (Part 1), in: Philosophische Rundschau 64 (2017), pp. 163–188.
  • Aleš Novák: Collective review (in Czech) on NK 1/1, NK 3/1, NK 5/1, NK 6/1 and NK 6/2, in: Filosofický časopis 65/5 (2017), pp. 793–802 .
  • Luis Enrique de Santiago Guervós: Review (in Spanish) of NK 6/1, in: El Caminante ( May 11, 2013 ) .
  • Luis Enrique de Santiago Guervós: Review (in Spanish) of NK 3/1, in: Estudios Nietzsche 16 (2016), pp. 247–250.
  • Rainer Schäfer: Review of NK 1/1, in: Nietzsche Studies 42 (2013), pp. 375–383.
  • Hermann Josef Schmidt : Review of NK 1/1, in: f-nietzsche.de (05.09.2013) . Abstracts: Enlightenment and Criticism 20 (3/2013) and hpd.de (15.10.2013) .
  • Hermann Josef Schmidt : Review of NK 6/1 and NK 6/2, in: f-nietzsche.de . Abstracts: Enlightenment and Criticism 21 (1/2014) and hpd.de (03/18/2014) .
  • Hermann Josef Schmidt : Review of NK 3/1. Part I, in: f-nietzsche.de (April 28, 2016) . Part II, in: f-nietzsche.de (June 18, 2016) . Short version: hpd.de (22.06.2016) .
  • Magnus Striet : Review, in: Theologische Revue 110 (2/2014), pp. 142–144.