Friedrich Nietzsche
A Fighter Against His Time
GA 5
Between 1918 and 1925 Rudolf Steiner republished his early philosophical works. Although he had been considering republishing his book on Nietzsche for years, he was unable to carry out this plan before his death in March 1925. Although the text had been completely retypeset since June 1921, it was not until 1926 that the “second edition, expanded to include several essays” was published by Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag, which Eugen Kolisko had arranged at the instigation of Marie Steiner in accordance with Rudolf Steiner's intentions. Steiner had planned to expand the new edition to include the memorial speech for Nietzsche given on September 13, 1900, the two articles from the Wiener Klinische Rundschau, also written in 1900, and a presentation on the eternal return of the same. These three essays were then included in this second edition. However, since Rudolf Steiner had not been able to write the description of the eternal recurrence, Kolisko included the Nietzsche chapter from Steiner's Mein Lebensgang (My Life), in which Steiner quotes extensively from his own essay on this topic from 1900. Kolisko prefaced the second edition with a detailed introduction in which he outlined Rudolf Steiner's publication plan.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Fighter for Freedom, Rudolf Steiner Publications, Englewood, N. J., 1960, 212 pp., translated from the German edition of 1926 by Margaret Ingram deRis
Ausführungen über Nietzsches Charakter, seine Entwicklung und den von ihm entwickelten Typus des «Übermenschen» sowie zwei Arbeiten über Nietzsche und die Psychopathologie.