Friedrich Nietzsche announced the death of God and attacked the moral ideas Europe had lived by for centuries. Here are 19 free Friedrich Nietzsche books in PDF, from his first lectures on the Greeks to The Will to Power.
Born in Röcken, Prussia, in 1844, he became a professor of classical philology at the University of Basel at just 24. His early books grew out of his love for the Greeks, Arthur Schopenhauer and Richard Wagner.
Then come the books everyone quotes: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morals. New to Nietzsche? Start with Twilight of the Idols, his own short summary of the will to power and his attack on morality.
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His inaugural lecture at Basel in 1869, given at just 24. Nietzsche asks what classical philology is for and argues that the study of Homer must serve life, not dry scholarship.
His first book and still one of his most influential. Nietzsche reads Greek tragedy as a clash between the Apollonian love of order and the wild Dionysian spirit, and asks what art can do for a life full of suffering.
Five lectures from 1872 on what schools and universities should really do. Nietzsche warns against education that turns out useful employees instead of free, cultivated minds, a debate that still feels current.
Early essays on the Greeks, including Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, Homer's Contest and The Greek State. You see Nietzsche discover Heraclitus and the pre-Socratics who shaped his whole philosophy.
His famous short essay on how language and concepts turn living experience into frozen metaphors. A quick, sharp read that many see as the seed of his later attack on truth and morality.
Two of his Untimely Meditations: a fierce attack on the smug German culture of David Strauss and a tribute to Richard Wagner written while they were still friends.
The other two Untimely Meditations. The Use and Abuse of History asks when the past helps us live and when it smothers us, and Schopenhauer as Educator explains how a great teacher helps you become who you are.
Notes from 1875 for an unfinished meditation on his own profession. Nietzsche questions why scholars study the Greeks at all and what antiquity can still teach the modern world.
The book where Nietzsche breaks with Wagner and turns to cool, skeptical aphorisms on religion, art, morality and everyday life. This complete edition also includes Miscellaneous Maxims and Opinions and The Wanderer and His Shadow.
Hundreds of short reflections in which Nietzsche starts his campaign against morality, digging into the hidden motives behind pity, guilt and duty. Calm, curious and full of insight into how people really think.
The book where a madman announces that God is dead and the idea of eternal recurrence appears for the first time. Playful aphorisms and poems make it one of Nietzsche's most personal and readable works.
Nietzsche's most famous book, told as the travels and speeches of the prophet Zarathustra. Here he introduces the Übermensch, the will to power and eternal recurrence in poetic, almost biblical prose.
His sharpest attack on the prejudices of philosophers and on conventional morality, with his famous contrast between master and slave values. Many readers find it the clearest entry point to his mature ideas.
Three essays that trace where our ideas of good and evil, guilt and bad conscience really come from. His most systematic book, and a must for anyone studying ethics or the history of morality.
His two final broadsides against Richard Wagner, the composer he once adored, plus a set of selected aphorisms. Sharp, funny and personal, they show how Nietzsche judged art as a symptom of health or decline.
Nietzsche's own quick summary of his philosophy, written in a few days in 1888. Short, punchy chapters take on Socrates, morality, free will and the great thinkers of his age, making it a great place to start.
Nietzsche's all-out attack on Christianity as a religion of weakness and resentment, set against his admiration for the figure of Jesus himself. Short, fierce and still provocative more than a century later.
His autobiography, with chapters like Why I Am So Wise and Why I Write Such Good Books. Written just before his collapse, it reviews each of his books and is the best guide to how Nietzsche saw himself.
The famous collection of notes from his last active years, edited after his death by his sister. All four books in one volume: nihilism, the critique of past values, the principle of a new valuation and discipline and breeding.
Nietzsche collapsed in Turin in 1889 and never wrote again. Barely read in his lifetime, he went on to shape existentialism, Freud, Heidegger and Camus.
Most editions here use the classic English translations by Thomas Common and Anthony Ludovici. For more great minds, explore our free classic authors books.
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