Nietzsche Online

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)

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