Patrick Wotling: «Studies on Nietzsche are very recent»

Patrick Wotling, the author and translator of numerous books on the German philosopher, recently edited a complete and annotated edition of Nietzsche’s works published by Flammarion. He reveals the intricacies of this editorial project to *Le Regard Libre*.

Friedrich Nietzsche seems particularly relevant today, at a time when people invoke the «death of God,» nihilism, the transcendence of the self toward the state of the superman, or the radical overturning of values—but do these notions, which have become almost slogans, still have anything to do with their author’s actual thought? The history of how his texts have been received—circumstances that long prevented a rigorous reading—is unraveled in the lounge of a hotel in Paris’s 6th arrondissement.