• Nietzsche, Basic Writings of Nietzsche, trans. and ed. Walter Kaufmann, Modern Library.
• Nietzsche, The Portable Nietzsche, trans. and ed. Walter Kaufmann, Penguin.
• Nietzsche, The Gay Science, trans. Walter Kaufmann, Vintage.
• Nietzsche, Daybreak, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Cambridge University Press. (There are two editions of this translation; either is fine.)

Disjunctively required textbooks (you have to get one or the other of these, but not both):

• Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization, trans. Richard Howard, Vintage.
• Alexander Nehamas, Nietzsche: Life as Literature, Harvard UP.

Optional textbook:

• Nietzsche, The Will to Power, trans. Kaufmann and Hollingdale, Vintage.

Most of these books have been in print for quite a while, and you can save money by finding them used. Be careful, however, to stick with the recommended translations: there are many translations of Nietzsche, and not all of them are respectable.

Remember, the secondary readings are assigned as targets for your papers. Don't assume they've gotten Nietzsche right; look for the mistakes they're making.

Reading Assignments:

1. Aug. 24: Introduction. GS 125 (Abbreviations). Optional prereading: Alasdair MacIntyre, "Nietzsche's Titanism" (online reserve: log into My.Utah.edu, click on "Academics", link to the course reserve will appear under "My Courses").
   
   
2. Aug. 26: Reading Nietzsche Straight: The Eternal Return. Reading: GS 341 (Abbreviations), Z 3:1,2,13 (in The Portable Nietzsche; these sections are "The Wanderer," "On the Vision and the Riddle," and "The Convalescent"; see the table of contents at pp. 112-114 to match up section numbers and titles in Zarathustra with page numbers). Danto, "Eternal Recurrence" (online reserve); Soll, "Reflections on Recurrence" (online reserve); Zuboff, "Nietzsche and Eternal Recurrence" (online reserve).
   
   Optional reading: WP 1053-1067. For your amusement: The Nietzsche Family Circus
   
   
3. Aug. 28: The Return of the Eternal Return. Reading: Nehamas, Nietzsche: Life as Literature, ch. 5. (This chapter is on online reserve.)
   
   Optional reading: Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (excerpts, online reserve). Maudemarie Clark, Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy, ch. 8 ("Eternal Recurrence"; available at the Marriott reserve desk).
   
   
4. Aug. 31: The Eternal Return Strikes Back. Hussain, Eternal Recurrence and Nihilism: Adding Weight to the Unbearable Lightness of Action.
   
   Optional reading: WP 55, 617.
   
   Genealogy: The Straight Reading. Reading: On the Genealogy of Morals, Preface and First Essay (in Kaufmann, Basic Writings).
   
   Optional reading: Maudemarie Clark, "Introduction" (to the translation of the Genealogy by herself and Alan Swensen) (online reserve).
   
   
5. Sept. 2: Genealogy: The Continental Straight Reading. Reading: On the Genealogy of Morals, Second Essay. Robert Solomon, "Nietzsche Ad Hominem" (online reserve).
   
   Optional reading: Raymond Geuss, "Nietzsche and Genealogy" (online reserve).
   
   
6. Sept. 4: Genealogy: Still the Straight Reading. Reading: On the Genealogy of Morals, Third Essay. Robert Solomon, "One Hundred Years of Ressentiment" (online reserve).
   
   Optional reading: Brian Leiter, Nietzsche on Morality (available from the Marriott reserve desk).
   
   
7. Sept. 7: LABOR DAY. If you're doing the Foucault option, take Madness and Civilization to the beach!
   
   
8. Sept. 9: Undercutting the Straight Reading. Reading: If you're doing the Foucault option: Madness and Civilization.
   
   Optional reading: Alasdair MacIntyre, Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry, ch. 2.
   
   
9. Sept. 11: Is Nietzsche Messing with Your Mind? If you're not reading Madness and Civilization: Gemes, "We Remain of Necessity Strangers to Ourselves" (online reserve).
   
   Optional reading: Christopher Janaway, "Nietzsche's Illustration of the Art of Exegesis" (online reserve); John Wilcox, "What Aphorism Does Nietzsche Explicate?" (online reserve).
   
   
10. Sept. 14: Approximations All the Way Down. Reading: Beyond Good and Evil, Part I. If you're doing the Nehamas option: Life as Literature, ch. 2.
    
    Optional reading: David Strauss, "Davidical Descent of Jesus" (online reserve). WP 474-477, 480, 483-490, 493, 499, 501, 507, 512, 515-517, 520-521, 535, 539, 574, 584, 609, 715.
    
    
11. Sept. 16: Is Perspectivism a Form of Relativism? Reading: Beyond Good and Evil, Parts II, III, V. If you're doing the Nehamas option, NLL, Introduction and ch. 1.
    
    Optional reading: BGE Part IV; WP 481, 567, 602, 616, 643.
    
    
12. Sept. 18: Supposing Truth is a Woman -- What Then? (Then Nietzsche Must be Appropriating Emerson) Reading: Beyond Good and Evil, Preface; "On Truth and Lie in a Nonmoral Sense" (online reserve). If you're doing the Nehamas option, NLL, ch. 3.
    
    Optional reading: Maudemarie Clark, Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy. For those with an interest: Derrida, Spurs (available at the Marriott reserve desk).
    
    
13. Sept. 21: Beyond Good and Evil: The Straight Reading. Reading: BGE Part V; review "On Truth and Lie in a Nonmoral Sense" (online reserve). If you're doing the Nehamas option, NLL, ch. 6.
    
    
14. Sept. 23: Who's Waiting for the Philosophers of the Future? Reading: Beyond Good and Evil, VI. Nehamas, "Who Are the Philosophers of the Future?" (online reserve). If you're doing the Nehamas option, NLL, ch. 7.
    
    Optional reading: Lanier Anderson, "Philosophy as Self-Fashioning" (online reserve).
    
    
15. Sept. 25: "Great Stupidities" and "Matters That Are None of My Business". Reading: BGE VII-VIII.
    
    Optional reading: Daybreak 205.
    
    
16. Sept. 28: Is 'Noble' What's Beyond 'Good' and 'Evil'? Reading: BGE IX.
    
    Optional reading: Conant, "Nietzsche's Perfectionism" (online reserve); D 272; WP 132.
    
    
17. Sept. 30: Zarathustra: The Straight Reading. Reading: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I.
    
    Optional reading, for your amusement: Sharon Wahl, "I Also Dated Zarathustra" (online reserve).
    
    
18. Oct. 2: Who Was the Author of Nietzsche's Zarathustra? Reading: Z Part II
    
    Further reading, for the severely ambitious: Julius Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Israel.
    
    Model papers are now available: Two can be found online, and one more is available from the reserve desk at Marriott.
    
    
19. Oct 5: Sourcing the Overman. Reading: Z Part III
    
    Optional reading: Emerson, "The Over-Soul" (online reserve).
    
    
20. Oct. 7: Redemption Values: 5 Cents in Maine, 10 Cents in California... Reading: Z Part IV
    
    Optional reading: Lanier Anderson, "Nietzsche on Redemption and Transfiguration" (online reserve).
    
    
21. Oct. 9: A Trap for Inventors of Values. Reading: GS Preface, Book I.
    
    Optional viewing: The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen (available at the Marriott media desk).
    
    Take the readings below along for FALL BREAK.
    
    
22. Oct. 19: Was Nietzsche a Romantic? Reading: Reginster, Introduction to Affirmation of Life; Schlegel, "Athenaum Fragments"; Novalis, "Fichte Studies"; Novalis, "Notes for a Romantic Encyclopedia"; Novalis, "Pollen".
    
    Optional reading: Beiser, The Romantic Imperative, ch. 6 ("The Concept of Bildung in Early German Romanticism" -- online reserve).
    
    
23. Oct. 21: Nietzsche's Theory of Truth. Reading: GS Book II.
    
    Optional listening, for your amusement: Charlton Heston on Nietzsche (CD available in the Philosophy Department).
    
    
24. Oct. 23: What Was Nietzsche's Gay Science? Reading: GS Book III.
    
    Optional reading: Higgins, Comic Relief (excerpt).
    
    
25. Oct. 26: Transcendental Unity of the Self as an Achievement. Reading: GS Book IV; D 257.
    
    Optional reading: Lanier Anderson, "What Is a Nietzschean Self?" (online reserve).
    
    
26. Oct. 28: Who Was Nietzsche's Gay Scientist? Reading: GS Book V.
    
    Optional reading: GS, Kaufmann's Translator's Introduction, pp. 4-6. Maxims of Duc De La Rochefoucauld. WP 362. Paul Ree, Basic Writings (available at the Marriott reserve desk). Optional viewing: Ridicule (film available from Marriott media desk).
    
    
27. Oct. 30: Was Nietzsche a Nazi? Reading: Daybreak, Preface and Book I.
    
    Optional reading: Aschheim, The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany (available at the Marriott reserve desk). Ben MacIntyre, Forgotten Fatherland (available at the Marriott reserve desk). And if you've been reading Wellhausen, this would be a good occasion to review it.
    
    
28. Nov. 2: Nietzsche's Epiphany. Reading: Daybreak, Book V.
    
    Optional reading: Pierre Klossowski, Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (available at the Marriott reserve desk). Sax, "What Was the Cause of Nietzsche's Dementia?" (online reserve).
    
    
29. Nov. 4: What Is Nihilism? Reading: TI through "Improvers".
    
    Optional reading: WP, Preface and 1-54. Further reading, for the very interested: Dostoyevsky, Demons (also translated as The Possessed; either translation is fine).
    
    
30. Nov. 6: Strength and Decadence. Reading: TI through end.
    
    Optional reading: WP 40-45; Lanier Anderson, "Nietzsche on Strength and Achieving Individuality" (online reserve).
    
    
31. Nov. 9: Drives! Author Wars! Reading: Nehamas, "The Postulated Author" (online reserve).
    
    Optional reading: Paul Katsafanas, "Nietzsche's Philosophical Psychology" (available on his publications page).
    
    
32. Nov. 11: Author Wars, Round Two: Decadence on Display? (Plus: Someone Who Actually Tried to Turn Her Life into a Literary Artifact.) Reading: Review TI, "Errors".
    
    Optional reading: Hollingdale, "Lou Salome" (online reserve); Binion, Frau Lou (excerpts; on reserve in the Philosophy Department); Nehamas, "What an Author Is" (online reserve).
    
    
33. Nov. 13: Author Wars, Round Three: The Intentional-Fallacy Fallacy and A Genealogy of Authorship. Reading: Wimsatt and Beardsley, "The Intentional Fallacy" (online reserve); Foucault, "What Is an Author?" (online reserve).
    
    Optional reading: Nehamas, "Writer, Text, Work, Author" (online reserve). Paul Grice, "Logic and Conversation" (online reserve).
    
    
34. Nov. 16: The Will to Power. Reading: Antichrist, thru sec. 40.
    
    Optional reading: Lanier Anderson, "Nietzsche's Will to Power as a Doctrine of the Unity of Science" (e-reserve).
    
    
35. Nov. 18: Do Anthropic Arguments Privilege the Will-to-Power Perspective? Reading: AC through end.
    
    
36. Nov. 20: Who Was Nietzsche's Antichrist? Reading: Wagner, "Judaism in Music" (e-reserve).
    
    Optional reading, for the very ambitious: Wieder die Juden: Judentum und Antisemitismus in der Publizistik aus sieben Jahrhunderten (on reserve at Marriott).
    
    
37. Nov. 23: Nihilism Again. Reading: Ecce Homo, through "Why I Am So Clever".
    
    Optional reading: Nadeem Hussain, "Honest Illusion: Valuing for Nietzsche's Free Spirits" (online reserve).
    
    
38. Nov. 25: Who Was Nietzsche's Autobiographer? Reading: EH through end; make sure to read the Appendix.
    
    Happy Thanksgiving!
    
    
39. Nov. 30: Decadent Values. Reading: Review BGE 19. Nietzsche Contra Wagner (in The Portable Nietzsche).
    
    Optional reading: Brian Leiter, "Nietzsche's Theory of the Will"; Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick, "Nietzsche on the Will: An Analysis of BGE 19" (available in the Philosophy Department). Optional viewing: Bubba Ho-Tep, available from the Marriott media desk.
    
    
40. Dec. 2: "It Is Only as an Aesthetic Phenomenon that Existence and the World are Eternally Justified." Reading: The Case of Wagner (in Basic Writings).
    
    Further optional reading: "Richard Wagner in Bayreuth" (in Untimely Meditations).
    
    
41. Dec. 4: Paper Drill. We'll use Sebastian Gardner, "Nietzsche, the Self, and the Disunity of Philosophical Reason" (online reserve). Start reading Birth of Tragedy (get through sec. 8).
    
    Further optional reading: Georges Liebert, Nietzsche and Music.
    
    Philosophy Department talk:
    Charlie Hueneman
    "Nietzsche and the Sanctimonious Snivelers"
    Friday, December 4, 2009
    3:00pm
    Tanner Library
    
    
42. Dec. 7: The Birth of Metaphysics out of the Spirit of Tragedy. Reading: Birth of Tragedy, through sec. 17.
    
    Optional listening: Nietzsche, Hymn to Life.
    
    
43. Dec. 9: Nihilism and Socratism. Reading: Birth of Tragedy, through end.
    
    Optional reading: Kivy, "The Fine Art of Repetition" (online reserve).
    
    
44. Dec. 11: Perspectives on Nietzsche. No new reading. Final papers due by 4:00 today.
    
    

    Graded final papers are available for pickup in the Philosophy Department office.