A chronology of Friedrich Nietzsche -- Beginnings: Fate and history: thoughts (1862) ; Freedom of will and fate (1862) ; My life (1863) ; On moods (1864) ; On Schopenhauer (1868) -- Early writings: The birth of tragedy from the spirit of music (1872) ; The Greek state (1871-2) ; Homer's contest (1872) ; Philosophy in the tragic age of the Greeks (1873) ; On truth and lies in a nonmoral sense (1873) ; On the utility and liability of history for life (1874) ; Schopenhauer as educator (1874) -- The middle period: Human, all too human: a book for free spirits, volume 1 (1878) ; Daybreak : thoughts on the prejudices of morality (1881) ; The gay science (1882) ; Notes from 1881 -- Thus spoke Zarathustra ; Thus spoke Zarathustra: a book for everyone and no one (1883-5) -- The later writings: 1886-1887: Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future (1886) ; The gay science, book V (1887) ; European Nihilism (1887) ; On the genealogy of morality: a polemic (1887) ; 1888-1889: The case of Wagner : a musicians' problem (1888) ; Twilight of the idols ; or, How to philosophize with a hammer (1888) ; The anti-Christ: curse on Christianity (1888) ; Ecce homo : how one becomes what one is (1888) ; Four letters (1888-9)

1. Philosophy