1. With the exception of occasional minor emendations, I rely throughout this essay on Walter Kaufmanns translations of Nietzsche's works for Random House/Viking Press. Numbers refer to sections rather than to pages, and the following key explains the abbreviations for my citations: AC:The Antichrist(ian); BGH:Beyond Good and Evil; BT:The Birth of Tragedy; Eh:Ecce homo; GM:Toward a Genealogy of Morals; GS:The Gay Science; TI:Twilight of the Idols; WTP:The Will To Power(trans, with R. J. Hollingdale); Z:Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
2. For example, Alasdair MacIntyre contends that “it is in his relentlessly serious pursuit of the problem, not in his frivolous solutions that Nietzsche's greatness lies”.After Virtue(Notre-Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1984), p. 114.
3. Nietzsche Werke: Kritische Gesamtausgabe, herausg. von Colli und Montinari (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1967–1978), Volume VIII2 9[35], s. 14; WTP 2.
4. Nietzsche Werke: VIII2 11[100], s. 291–92; WTP 7.
5. A good example here is MacIntyre'sAfter Virtue.InNietzsche: Life as Literature(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985), Alexander Nehamas equates theÜbermenschwith Nietzsche's ideal character (p. 174), a self-creator (p. 174), and the new philosopher (p. 222).