Brian Leiter's Nietzsche Blog

Thinking out loud about Nietzsche's philosophy

Monday, August 3, 2026

Attempts to show that Williams really was indebted to Nietzsche, redux

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 I am putting together a collection of seven previously published papers (and three new ones) under the tentative title  Nietzschean Studies...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

New editor of Journal of Nietzsche Studies

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 I realized I neglected to post that Timothy Stoll (University of Warwick) has agreed to take over from Jessica Berry as the new editor of  ...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Journal of Nietzsche Studies seeks a new Executive Editor

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 Professor Jessica Berry completes her ten-year term as Executive Editor at the end of May 2026.  She has, by common consensus, done a terri...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Why can't get Elijah Millgram get his act together?

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 The post title is a play on the title of Millgram's very strange book, which is judiciously reviewed by Avery Snelson here .  As Profes...
Friday, December 27, 2024

Where to go for a PhD focused on Nietzsche, 2024 edition

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The recommendations are premised on three assumptions about what is needed to do good PhD work on Nietzsche: (1) a strong, general philos...
Saturday, July 6, 2024

Jing Huang on the Nachlass and the question of what notes Nietzsche wanted to burn

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I skimmed this essay by Jing Huang (hereafter JH), a philosopher at the Free University of Berlin, shortly after it came out in 2019, saw t...
Friday, May 24, 2024

Spinoza and Nietzsche

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 This was a great conference: Jason Yonover, a postdoc at Princeton, is working on a manuscript on Spinoza and Nietzsche. I'll have more...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Where to go for PhD studies focused on Nietzsche, 2023 edition

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The recommendations are premised on three assumptions about what is needed to do good PhD work on Nietzsche: (1) a strong, general philos...
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

NANS conference both live and on Zoom this weekend

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 Paul Katsafanas (Boston University) shared this information, which may interest some readers: As you know, the NANS 2022 Conference takes...
Sunday, September 4, 2022

"Nietzsche on Morality" in Japan

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I owe to Yuma Oto the translation of the 2nd edition of NOM into Japanese. Mr. Oto writes: 1. The publication of the Japanese translation h...
Monday, November 22, 2021

Sommer on the Genealogy and naturalism

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I've started reading Andreas Urs Sommer's learned (but not very philosophical) commentary on the Genealogy ( Kommentar zu Nietzsche...
Saturday, November 6, 2021

Most cited Anglophone books on Nietzsche according to Google Scholar

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(These are scholarly monographs on Nietzsche published originally in English.  Citations are rounded to the nearest 10.) Rank by total cit...
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Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy, & Human Values at the University of Chicago. He works on a variety of topics in moral, political, and legal philosophy. His current Nietzsche-related work concerns Nietzsche's theory of agency and its intersection with recent work in empirical psychology; Nietzsche's arguments for moral skepticism; and the role of naturalism in Nietzsche's philosophy.
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