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Nietzsche Online

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.

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Nietzsche Online

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  1. Nietzsche Online

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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)

  5. Content • Sample of theme page: Lektüremethoden der Nietzsche-Forschung [Reading Methods in Nietzsche Research]

  6. Special Features of the Online Database • Nietzsche 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

  7. Special Features of the Online Database • Corrections, amendments, variants etc. from the supplementary volumes, • source research from the Nietzsche-Studien,links to the Nietzsche-Wörterbuch Corrections and amendments incorporated in the text as well as variants, precursor material, etc. in the supplementary volumes Link to theNietzsche-Wörterbuch Source research from the Nietzsche-Studien

  8. Special Features of the Online Database • Links to previously scattered additional information

  9. 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 accessedprecisely and easily

  10. Special Features of the Online Database • Most 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

  11. Special Features of the Online Database • Most 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

  12. Special Features of the Online Database • Connection between Nietzsche reception and Nietzsche texts • Siemens, Herman: Agonal Configurations in the Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen. Identity, Mimesis and the Übertragungof 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 ofMenschliches, Allzumenschliches I, KSA 2, p. 14 Link to foreword of Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen II, KSA 1, p. 247

  13. Special Features of the Online Database • The 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.

  14. Research • The simple search accesses the categories of Full text, Title, and Author. Example: Enter"Du gehst zu Frauen"

  15. Research • List of results: 12 hits Sortedby title Selection through tick box or click on the title

  16. Research • Document display Fading in of footnote text by clicking on the footnote number Citation information Navigation between search results Bibliographic data The searched word/phrase is highlighted with a gray background DOI

  17. Research • More complex search: Combining different search criteria Example: Secondary literature on Nietzsche's metaphysics relating to Kant

  18. Research • More 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" Combination with OR

  19. Research • Example 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 Selection of Arbeitsheft W II 1:Manuscript, Transcription, Edition

  20. Research • Example 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. Manuscript Diplomatic Transcription (KGW IX) Traditional Transcription(KGW VIII)

  21. Further Information • Thank you for your interest. We will be happy to answer your questions! • De Gruyter • Genthiner Straße 13 • 10785 Berlin • Germany • Phone +49 (0)30.260 05-0 • Fax +49 (0)30.260 05-251 • E-mail info@degruyter.com • Website www.degruyter.com • You can find more information on Nietzsche Online atwww.degruyter.com/nietzsche

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