Nietzsche Online

The Database and Its Users• Nietzsche Online brings together all the De Gruyter editions, interpretations and reference works relating to

one of the most significant philosophers and renders them fully available for reading and research.

• This gives the user access to a comprehensive database comprising over a century of Nietzsche research.

• The content of Nietzsche Online is relevant to a broad range of humanities disciplines, and especially for

• Philosophers

• Philologists

• Scholars of classical studies

• Scholars of cultural studies

Content• Works Kritische Gesamtausgabe Werke (KGW)

• Letters Kritische Gesamtausgabe Briefwechsel (KGB)

• Nietzsche-Wörterbuch (NWB) [Nietzsche Dictionary]

• Titles from the series Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung

and Supplementa Nietzscheana

• Titles from the new series Nietzsche Heute / Nietzsche Today (2011 ff.)

• All further De Gruyter monographs and published volumes relating to Nietzsche

• Individual essays and chapters relating to Nietzsche printed in De Gruyter books and journals

Content• Regular content updates (2x per year)

• Continual expansion (the content of new books is regularly entered; further texts and indices; new functions),

updating and corrections

most authoritative current state of Nietzsche research

• Exclusive online content such as theme pages (including Reading Methods in Nietzsche Research; Music;

Nietzsche and Perspectivism; Nietzsche’s Styles) provide a useful review of research trends and Nietzsche

source materials

• Total content of approx. 105,000 book pages (as of 2011)

ContentSample of theme page: Lektüremethoden der Nietzsche-Forschung [Reading Methods in Nietzsche Research]

Special Features of the Online DatabaseNietzsche Online provides additional and improved editing of the content

•Corrections and amendments that are compiled in the printed versions of the editions in special supplementary

volumes are instead incorporated in the texts

corrected and improved edition of Nietzsche’s works (KGW) and letters (KGB)

•Content elements relating to a text or a text passage that were often scattered over 2 to 4 volumes are now

brought into direct relation to each other through links (e.g. variants, original sources etc.)

quick locatability, better comparability, completeness

Special Features of the Online DatabaseCorrections, amendments, variants etc. from the supplementary volumes,

source research from the Nietzsche-Studien, links to the Nietzsche-Wörterbuch

Link to theNietzsche-WörterbuchLink to theNietzsche-Wörterbuch

Corrections and amendments incorporated in the text as well as variants, precursor material, etc. in the supplementary volumesCorrections and amendments incorporated in the text as well as variants, precursor material, etc. in the supplementary volumes

Source research from the Nietzsche-StudienSource research from the Nietzsche-Studien

Special Features of the Online DatabaseLinks to previously scattered additional information

Special Features of the Online Database• Nietzsche-Wörterbuch

• Lemmas linked to the full texts and further interpretations

• Terms in the writings of Nietzsche linked directly to the lemma in the NWB

• Online versions of the NWB are expanded with respect to the printed version

• New articles of the NWB are, upon their completion, first placed online

quick comparability and additional online content

• Content elements are logically ordered and easily accessible,

e.g. according to type of work, textual units (poems), book titles…  

the menu enables individual documents to be accessed

precisely and easily

Special Features of the Online DatabaseMost important technical properties and advantages of the database

Search

• Searches are possible using various criteria, such as full text, author, title, KGW/KGB volume, type of work,

letter date, notebook number

accelerated research and targeted search

• Targeted search in the secondary literature

quick access, better comparability, and complete overview

Special Features of the Online DatabaseMost important technical properties and advantages of the database

Linking

•Deep linking of the content

•Connection between Nietzsche reception and Nietzsche texts

(and vice versa)

quick access, better comparability and complete overview

•Commentaries, precursor material, manuscript descriptions assigned to the text by the precise line

•For the manuscript legacy from 1885 onwards, it is possible to compare the transcription with the manuscript facsimile

Special Features of the Online DatabaseConnection between Nietzsche reception and Nietzsche texts

Siemens, Herman: Agonal Configurations in the Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen. Identity, Mimesis and the Übertragung of Cultures in Nietzsche’s Early Thought, in: Nietzsche-Studien, Volume 30, Walter de Gruyter (Berlin, New York) 2001. DOI: 10.1515/NO_W017240_0004

Link to preface of Menschliches, Allzumenschliches I,KSA 2, p. 14

Link to preface of Menschliches, Allzumenschliches I,KSA 2, p. 14

Link to foreword of Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen II,KSA 1, p. 247

Link to foreword of Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen II,KSA 1, p. 247

Special Features of the Online DatabaseThe database surpasses other platforms thanks to ADDED VALUE in terms of content and quality:

•Nietzsche Online is the only platform that can claim to offer an edition of the works that meets academic standards of work and quality.

•Nietzsche Online provides many powerful options for easy and convenient searches,

•contains secondary literature that is linked directly to the sources,

•provides much more than is freely available on the World Wide Web.

•Future-proof citations and bibliographies thanks to DOIs.  

All these features make the database an essential tool for researching and understanding Nietzsche’s work. It reflects the

latest authoritative state of Nietzsche research.

ResearchThe simple search accesses the categories of Full text, Title, and Author.

Example: Enter"Du gehst zu Frauen"Example: Enter"Du gehst zu Frauen"

ResearchList of results: 12 hits

Sortedby titleSortedby title

Selection through tick box or click on the titleSelection through tick box or click on the title

ResearchDocument display

Navigation between search resultsNavigation between search results

Bibliographic dataBibliographic data

Citation informationCitation information

DOIDOI

Fading in of footnote text by clicking on the footnote number

Fading in of footnote text by clicking on the footnote number

The searched word/phrase is highlighted with a gray background

The searched word/phrase is highlighted with a gray background

ResearchMore complex search: Combining different search criteria

Example: Secondary literature on Nietzsche's metaphysics relating to Kant

Example: Secondary literature on Nietzsche's metaphysics relating to Kant

ResearchMore complex search: It is possible to search for literature references using various citation conventions

Example: Secondary literature on the foreword to Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen, Zweites Stück, KSA 1, S. 245 ff.

Entry of the possible reference forms in the full text search field: "KSA 1, 245" "KSA 1.245" "KSA 1:245" "KSA 1, S.245" "KSA 1, S. 245" "KSA 1, p.245" "KSA 1, p. 245" "KSA 1, pp.245" "KSA 1, pp. 245" "KGW III/1, S. 240" "KGW III/1, p. 240" "KGW III 1, S. 240" "UB II Vorwort"

Entry of the possible reference forms in the full text search field: "KSA 1, 245" "KSA 1.245" "KSA 1:245" "KSA 1, S.245" "KSA 1, S. 245" "KSA 1, p.245" "KSA 1, p. 245" "KSA 1, pp.245" "KSA 1, pp. 245" "KGW III/1, S. 240" "KGW III/1, p. 240" "KGW III 1, S. 240" "UB II Vorwort"

Combination with ORCombination with OR

ResearchExample of a special feature of the online database

Comparison of the editions of the fragments, using the Arbeitsheft W II 1 as an example.

Search for a term in the later work: example "Nihilism" in section KGW IX.

SearchField Full text: nihilism*Field Section: kgw ix

SearchField Full text: nihilism*Field Section: kgw ix

Selection of Arbeitsheft W II 1:Manuscript, Transcription, EditionSelection of Arbeitsheft W II 1:Manuscript, Transcription, Edition

ResearchExample of a special feature of the online database

Comparison of the editions of the fragments, using the Arbeitsheft W II 1 as an example.

Search for a term in the later work: example "Nihilism" in section KGW IX.

ManuscriptManuscript Diplomatic Transcription (KGW IX)

Diplomatic Transcription (KGW IX)

Traditional Transcription(KGW VIII)

Traditional Transcription(KGW VIII)

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