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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988762
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The same citation format is used throughout the journal. References to Nietzsche’s texts are given in the body of the articles and reviews. References to Nietzsche’s unpublished writings are standardized, whenever possible, to refer to the most accessible print editions of Nietzsche’s notebooks and publications: Kritische Studienausgabe (ksa), compiled under the general editorship of Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari and based on the complete edition of the Kritische Gesamtausgabe (kgw) (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1967ff) or the electronic version published in the Nietzsche Source collection (http://www.nietzschesource.org/eKGWB) [abbreviated ekgwb]). References to the print editions of letters
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/142/image/coversmallAbbreviations and Citations of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Works2026-04-21text/htmlen-USAbbreviations and Citations of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Works2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®100412026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Letter from the Editor
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988763
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With this issue, The Journal of Nietzsche Studies marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of its first publication. In his Editor’s Preface for the inaugural volume, “Whose Nietzsche?” (JNS no. 1 [Spring 1991]), Howard Caygill announced that its appearance had been planned to coincide with the First Annual Conference of what would eventually become the Friedrich Nietzsche Society of Great Britain (FNS). As he observed, “In just over a century of reception the claims to Nietzsche have been many and varied,” made by the political left and right, by academics from diverse disciplines, and even from outside the academy by artists, poets, and musicians. The issue reflected that diversity as it engaged head-on the question
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/142/image/coversmallLetter from the Editor2026-04-21text/htmlen-USLetter from the Editor2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®105332026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Nietzschean Saintliness
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988764
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Of the many things that Nietzsche subjects to unyielding critique, none would seem a clearer target than the ideal signified by “the saint.” Within Nietzsche’s corpus, it is easy to locate attacks on particular figures historically venerated as saints. GS, for instance, subjects St. Paul and St. Augustine to special derision. GS 139 accuses Paul of wishing for the “annihilation of the passions” out of an “idealistic” hatred of earthly existence.1 GS 359 describes Augustine as a man honored by the Volk “using such names as saint and sage” but who truly belongs among the “monsters of morality” that are driven by “fear of the spirit” and “revenge against the spirit.” “Saint” appears to name a human type for which
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/142/image/coversmallNietzschean Saintliness2026-04-21text/htmlen-USNietzschean Saintliness2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®926292026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Decadence Contra Nietzsche: Nietzsche and the Decadent Movement
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988765
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Nietzsche’s focus on decadence during the 1880s coincided with the concept’s dominance on the European literary scene. Yet the fact that Europe’s leading writers were exploring an alternative vision of a concept central to late Nietzsche is undiscussed in the philosophical, as opposed to literary critical, commentary.1 This absence is evident in recent Anglophone work on Nietzschean decadence.2 The same lacuna exists in the canonical European texts: Neither Heidegger nor Deleuze touches on the matter, and Klossowski does so only fleetingly and disdainfully, separating Nietzsche from “a Baudelaire, a Poe, a Flaubert and many others—those decadents.”3In this article I argue, against such neglect, that the comparison
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/142/image/coversmallDecadence Contra Nietzsche: Nietzsche and the Decadent Movement2026-04-21text/htmlen-USDecadence Contra Nietzsche: Nietzsche and the Decadent Movement2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®1105652026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Nietzsche on Substantial Character Change
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988766
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At first glance, Nietzsche may appear skeptical about the possibility of a person’s character changing. His references to “types,” to unconscious “drives” that explain all motivated action, to our spiritual fatum “that will not learn” (BGE 231),1 for example, may suggest that character is mostly fixed for Nietzsche. Brian Leiter takes this view in his “doctrine of types” reading. He maintains that, aside from environmental factors, unchangeable type-facts—fixed psycho-physical facts about a person—are the primary cause of character.2 Other recent interpretations of Nietzsche’s views on this topic, by contrast, emphasize the possibilities for development that remain open for individuals.3 However, less has been said
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/142/image/coversmallNietzsche on Substantial Character Change2026-04-21text/htmlen-USNietzsche on Substantial Character Change2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®816322026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Chaos and Contradiction: On Nietzsche’s Conception of Nature
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988767
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In The Gay Science §109, Nietzsche describes the “total character” of the world as being “for all eternity chaos” (GS 109).1 In this article I offer an interpretation of Nietzsche’s notion of chaos, specifically, Nietzsche’s conception of the world or nature in these terms. GS 109 does not constitute Nietzsche’s first or last use of “chaos” to describe a variety of states of affairs. From describing nature as chaos in contrast to Spinoza’s equation of nature with divinity to identifying a creative chaos within the human being, particularly in his unpublished notes throughout the mid-to-late 1880s, Nietzsche repeatedly resorted to chaos to capture a constitutional state that underlies any type of organization.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/142/image/coversmallChaos and Contradiction: On Nietzsche’s Conception of Nature2026-04-21text/htmlen-USChaos and Contradiction: On Nietzsche’s Conception of Nature2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®834542026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Nietzsche Underground: Katabasis and the Critique of Morality in Daybreak
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988768
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Helpfully, for would-be unriddlers of Daybreak, the first sentence of the preface tells us what we will find in the book: “In this book you will discover a ‘subterranean man’ at work,” writes Nietzsche, “one who tunnels and mines and undermines” (D P:1)1. Of course, things are not that simple. Familiar readers will be wary of taking this philosopher at his word. Whatever our views about Nietzsche’s style of writing and to what extent the way he writes might make his self-interpretations less trustworthy, the fact that the preface was written in 1886, five years after the publication of D in 1881, recommends caution. Retrospectives, by their nature, implicate shifts in perspective. Nietzsche had written Z by 1886.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/142/image/coversmallNietzsche Underground: Katabasis and the Critique of Morality in Daybreak2026-04-21text/htmlen-USNietzsche Underground: Katabasis and the Critique of Morality in Daybreak2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®902542026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Why Didn’t Nietzsche Get His Act Together? by Elijah Millgram (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988769
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Elijah Millgram begins his study of Nietzsche where books of similar scope and ambition more typically conclude: Nietzsche was only ever (and at best) a disunified agent. Sickly, dissolute, and infirm, he presided over an implacable cluster of disorderly instincts, scuffling drives, unruly affects, and brawling personae, which he was able only occasionally (and at great personal expense) to compose into a coherent and structured whole. As his health declined, moreover, he found it increasingly difficult to secure for himself the baseline experience of power and agency that would enable him to hazard a credible affirmation of his miserable existence. As Millgram’s provocative title suggests, in short, Nietzsche
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/142/image/coversmallWhy Didn’t Nietzsche Get His Act Together? by Elijah Millgram (review)2026-04-21text/htmlen-USWhy Didn’t Nietzsche Get His Act Together? by Elijah Millgram (review)2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®190582026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Nietzsche Pursued: Toward a Philosophy of the Future by Richard Schacht (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988770
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Richard Schacht’s Nietzsche Pursued is, in a certain sense, the companion volume to his previous book Nietzsche’s Kind of Philosophy (University of Chicago Press, 2023). The latter furnishes much of the background to the overall argument and approach in Nietzsche Pursued, which itself still works through the question what Nietzsche’s kind of philosophy really is and, perhaps more importantly, what its philosophical potential is. In the previous volume, Schacht argues that Nietzsche adopts a specific kind of naturalism that views life as much as philosophy in terms of interpretive processes. In his new book, he begins to consider some of the implications of this position for what we might describe as a Nietzschean
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/142/image/coversmallNietzsche Pursued: Toward a Philosophy of the Future by Richard Schacht (review)2026-04-21text/htmlen-USNietzsche Pursued: Toward a Philosophy of the Future by Richard Schacht (review)2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®206442026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Matthew Meyer (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988771
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Nietzsche notoriously said that anyone who could understand six sentences of Z would have risen to a higher level than modern humanity (EH “Books” Z). Nietzsche scholars have dared to go much further in claiming a grasp of the book’s content. When “Peter Gast” (aka Heinrich Köselitz) brought out a new edition of Z in 1893, he contributed a lengthy preface that, he explained, was only a forerunner of the full, line-by-line commentary that was certain to come. Given the work’s enormous implications, he added, such a commentary might grow into an entire library. This essay had a short life: A few months later, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche took control of Nietzsche’s literary estate and withdrew Gast’s edition, along
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/142/image/coversmallThe Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Matthew Meyer (review)2026-04-21text/htmlen-USThe Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Matthew Meyer (review)2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®201142026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21Nietzsche and Politicized Identities ed. by Rebecca Bamford and Allison Merrick (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988772
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Nietzsche and Politicized Identities is a timely addition to Nietzsche scholarship that emphasizes the relevance of Nietzsche’s thought to pressing political and philosophical issues today. Noting that contemporary political struggles are often organized around social group identities—race, religion, region, gender, sexuality, class, (dis)ability—the editors, Bamford and Merrick, propose that Nietzsche’s philosophy can offer conceptual tools to better understand politicized identities, which have direct impacts on the material conditions of our lives. Nietzsche’s philosophy may seem an odd place to look for such conceptual tools, given his controversial comments about women, his (arguably) aristocratic leanings
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/142/image/coversmallNietzsche and Politicized Identities ed. by Rebecca Bamford and Allison Merrick (review)2026-04-21text/htmlen-USNietzsche and Politicized Identities ed. by Rebecca Bamford and Allison Merrick (review)2026-04-212026TWOProject MUSE®190212026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-21