The Will to Power (manuscript)
The Will to Power (German: Der Wille zur Macht) is a book of notes drawn from the literary remains (or Nachlass) of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche by his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Peter Gast (Heinrich Köselitz). The title derived from a work that Nietzsche himself had considered writing. The work was first translated into English by Anthony M. Ludovici in 1910, and it has since seen several other translations and publications.
"Der Wille zur Macht" was first translated into English by in 1910, and was published in Oscar Levy's edition of Nietzsche's papers. Ludovici held that the text, incomplete though it was, represented Nietzsche's intended magnum opus.[9]
Anthony M. Ludovici
Friedrich Nietzsche (1910). . In Oscar Levy (ed.). The complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Vol. 14. Edinburgh and London: T. N. Foulis. (Revised third edition 1925, published by The Macmillan Company)
"The will to power. An attempted transvaluation of all values. Books one and two"
Friedrich Nietzsche (1910). . In Oscar Levy (ed.). The complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Vol. 15 (1st ed.). Edinburgh and London: T. N. Foulis.
"The will to power. An attempted transvaluation of all values. Books three and four"
Friedrich Nietzsche (1968). The Will to Power. Random House. 978-0-394-70437-1. Another translation was published by Kaufmann with Hollingdale in 1968
ISBN
"The Will to Power". Publication Date: 3/28/2017 9780141195353 Paperback (English). The latest translation, by R. Kevin Hill and Michael A. Scarpitti for Penguin Classics
ISBN
Der Wille zur Macht. Versuch einer Umwerthung aller Werthe (Studien und Fragmente), 1901 (as part of Nachgelassene Werke), ed. by Ernst Horneffer, August Horneffer and Peter Gast, with a foreword by Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, publ. C. G. Naumann, (usual abbreviation: ¹WM)
Der Wille zur Macht, 1906, ed. by Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Peter Gast (usual abbreviation: ²WM)
Der Wille zur Macht: eine Auslegung alles Geschehens, 1917, ed. by Max Brahn
Der Wille zur Macht, 1922[1911] (15th volume of Nachgelassene Werk), publ. A. Kröner
Werke
Der Wille zur Macht, 1926[1922] (19th volume of Gesammelte Werke: Musarionausgabe), ed. by , Max Oehler, and Friedrich Würzbach Gesammelte WerkeLiteratur - Kultur - DER SPIEGEL
Richard Oehler
Der Wille zur Macht, 1930 (as part of Werke in zwei Bänden), ed. by August Messer
La Volonté de Puissance, 1935, ed. by Friedrich Würzbach (Gallimard)
– digital critical edition of the complete works, posthumous fragments, and letters, based on the critical text by Colli and Montinari, edited by Paolo D'Iorio, Paris, Nietzsche Source, 2009–
Digitale Kritische Gesamtausgabe Werke und Briefe
In popular culture[edit]
The book was featured in the 1933 film Baby Face. It is also referenced in the 1991 Oliver Stone film The Doors.
Nietzschean affirmation
Will to power
. These are his notebooks from the year 1888 up to early January 1889. Nietzsche stopped writing entirely after January 6, 1889. English translation and notes by Daniel Fidel Ferrer (June 2012).
"Nietzsche's Last Notebooks 1888"
. English translation and notes by Daniel Fidel Ferrer (June 2012).
"Nietzsche's Notebook of 1887–1888"
a selection of texts from Nietzsche's estate related to his philosophical concept and book projects "Wille zur Macht" ("Will to Power"), edited by Bernd Jung based on the Digital Critical Edition of Nietzsche's Works, 2012/13
Der "Wille zur Macht" – kein Buch von Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Value of Nietzsche's 'The Will to Power' Manuscript
Translator: Anthony M. Ludovici, via Project Gutenberg
The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II
Translator: Anthony M. Ludovici, via Project Gutenberg