ABOUT THE AUTHOR
friedrich nietzsche was born near Leipzig in 1844, the son of a Lutheran clergyman who died when Nietzsche was four. He attended the famous Pforta School, then went to university at Bonn and at Leipzig, where he studied philology and first became acquainted with Richard Wagner. When he was only twenty-four he was appointed to the chair of classical philology at Basel University; he stayed there until his health forced him into retirement in 1879. While in Basel, he participated as an ambulance orderly in the Franco-Prussian War and published The Birth of Tragedy (1872), Untimely Meditations (18736) and the first part of Human, All Too Human (1878). From 1880 until 1889, except for brief interludes, he divorced himself from everyday life and, supported by his university pension, lived mainly in France, Italy and Switzerland. Works published in the 1880s included Dawn, The Joyous Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals and The Case of Wagner. In January 1889, Nietzsche collapsed on a street in Turin and was subsequently institutionalized in Basel and Jena. He spent the remaining years of his life in a condition of mental and physical debility, cared for by his mother and later his sister Elisabeth. The last works published during his lifetime were Twilight of the Idols (1889), The Anti-Christ (1895) and Nietzsche contra Wagner (1895). After Nietzsches death in 1900, Elisabeth assembled The Will to Power based on her brothers notebooks and published it the following year; a greatly expanded edition appeared in 1906. Ecce Homo, Nietzsches autobiography, was published in 1908.
r. kevin hill is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University. From 1994 until 2001 he taught in the Philosophy Department at Northwestern University. He is the author of Nietzsches Critiques: The Kantian Foundations of His Thought, published by Oxford University Press (2003).
michael a. scarpitti is an independent scholar of philosophy whose principal interests include English and German thought of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as exegesis and translation theory. His translation of Nietzsches On the Genealogy of Morals in published in Penguin Classics.
Concordance
between Der Wille zur Macht and Kritische Gesamtausgabe
The section number from the second edition of Der Wille zur Macht, which we follow in this translation, is given to the left of the equals sign, and the division, volume and page number of the Kritische Gesamtausgabe, where a transcription of the source text can be found to the right. In some cases we have substituted other drafts, which we indicate in parentheses.
Preface = div. 8, II, 4312
1 = div. 8, I, 1235
2 = div. 8, II, 14
3 = div. 8, II, 237
4 = div. 8, I, 215
5 = div. 8, I, 21516
6 = div. 8, II, 237
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