Texts on Nietzsche's Politics

Some texts I have enjoyed, found useful, or been authoritatively recommended. Indefinitely under construction. Inevitably uncomprehensive. I will be augmenting this list for the foreseeable future as I read further into this interesting topic, and would be pleased to hear any suggestions. Where possible, I link straight to the text; where not, to the publisher.

Updated 21 June 2023.

 

Books

Benoist, Alain de, Nietzsche: Morale et “Grande Politique” (Paris: GRECE, 1973). —

Brandes, Georg, Friedrich Nietzsche (London: Heinemann, 1914). — Brandes was Nietzsche’s contemporary, and among the first, or perhaps the very first, to lecture on Nietzsche in an academic setting. His formula for Nietzsche’s politics, “aristocratic radicalism,” was endorsed by Nietzsche himself. Includes some correspondence between author and subject.

Arnold Lunn contra Nietzsche (1919)

In a letter to The New Age, 26.4 (27 November 1919), p. 63, Arnold Lunn fires off some aphoristic reflections on human nature in Nietzsche’s direction. I present the text with some light proofreading, including those emendations Lunn himself suggests in a letter to the same paper, 26.5 (4 December 1919), p. 83.

 

Dr. Levy, I see, appeals to The New Age for a re-opening of the Nietzsche controversy. If I jot down some random thoughts that have been circulating in my head the last few days, some disciple of Nietzsche may, perhaps, rise up and inaugurate the controversy over my corpse.