Thursday, March 10, 2016

Most cited articles on Nietzsche in English (according to Google Scholar)

Corrections welcome in the comments; I'll update the list periodically.  The bottom line is that articles on Nietzsche don't get cited a lot, certainly not as much as books!


1.  Bernard Williams, "Nietzsche's Minimalist Moral Psychology" (1993), 99 citations


2.  Raymond Geuss, "Nietzsche and Genealogy" (1994), 80 citations


3.  Brian Leiter, "The Paradox of Fatalism and Self-Creation in Nietzsche" (1998), 66 citations


4.  Martha Nussbaum, "Pity and Mercy:  Nietzsche's Stoicism" (1994), 63 citations


5.  Brian Leiter, "Perspectivism in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals" (1994), 61 citations


6.  Ken Gemes, "Nietzsche's Critique of Truth" (1992), 60 citations


7.  Brian Leiter, "Nietzsche and the Morality Critics" (1997), 58 citations


8.  Nadeem Hussain, "Nietzsche's Positivism" (2004), 55 citations


9.  Philippa Foot, "Nietzsche:  The Revaluation of Values" (1973), 52 citations [this seemed suspiciously low to me]


10.  Paul Katsafanas, "Nietzsche's Theory of Mind:  Consciousness and Conceptualization" (2005), 51 citations.


11.  Nadeem Hussain, "Honest Illusion:  Valuing for Nietzsche's Free Spirits" (2007), 49 citations.


11.  Bernard Reginster, "Nietzsche on Ressentiment and Valuation" (1997), 49 citations


11.  Robert C. Solomon, "Nietzsche ad hominem:  Perspectivism, Personality & Ressentiment" (1996), 49 citations


14.  Joshua Knobe & Brian Leiter, "The Case for Nietzschean Moral Psychology" (2007), 48 citations


15.  R. Lanier Anderson, "Truth and Objectivity in Perspectivism" (1998), 46 citations


16.  Alexander Nehamas, "The Eternal Return" (1980), 42 citations


17.  Alexander Nehamas, "How One Becomes What One Is" (1983), 41 citations


18.  Maudemarie Clark, "Nietzsche's Immoralism and the Concept of Morality" (1994), 40 citations.


18.  Ken Gemes, "Postmodernism's Use & Abuse of Nietzsche" (2001), 40 citations


18.  Brian Leiter, "Nietzsche's Theory of the Will" (2009), 40 citations

2 comments:

David Fitzgerald said...

"Nietzsche's perfectionism: A reading of Schopenhauer as educator" - 76 citations on GScholar. Thought you might want to include it.

Brian Leiter said...

Thank you, we got a much lower count for that article, will have to double-check it.