A Note on Translations and Abbreviations

IREFER THROUGHOUT to the original texts and, when available, offer standard English translations, supplying a second page reference. In general, these translations have been modified toward greater literalness. Unless otherwise noted, all other translations are my own.

Spelling in the primary sources has not been modernized. For collected editions, volume number is followed by the page reference or, where relevant, a book number and then a page reference. References to the Weimarer Ausgabe of Goethe’s Werke are to section, volume, and page.

Concerning ancient Greek, I have chosen to transliterate single words for the sake of comparison, while retaining the original alphabet for longer phrases and citations.

References to Plato’s works are from John Burnet’s edition (Platonis Opera, 5 vols. [Oxford: Clarendon, 1972–76]). In translating into English, I have consulted the Complete Works, ed. John M. Cooper (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997). For the convenience of the reader with different translations, I have simply marked each citation with the conventional manuscript number.

The following abbreviations are used for frequently cited editions:

EH	Friedrich Nietzsche. The Antichrist, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, and Other Writings. Trans. Judith Norman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
HMW	E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Musical Writings. Ed. David Charlton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
HW	E. T. A. Hoffmann. Sämtliche Werke. 6 vols. Ed. Hartmut Steinecke. Frankfurt: Deutscher Klassiker, 1993. (Note that the second volume is further divided into two subvolumes.)
KM	E. T. A. Hoffmann. The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr. Trans. Anthea Bell. New York: Penguin, 1999.
KSW	Heinrich von Kleist. Sämtliche Werke und Briefe. 2 vols. Ed. Helmut Sembdner. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch, 2001.
KU	Immanuel Kant. Kritik der Urteilskraft. Vol. 5 of Gesammelte Schriften, 24 vols. Ed. Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1969. Critique of the Power of Judgment. Trans. Paul Guyer and Eric Matthews. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
NR	Denis Diderot. Le neveu de Rameau. Ed. Jean Fabre. Geneva: Droz, 1963. Rameau’s Nephew and d’Alembert’s Dream. Trans. Leonard Tancock. New York: Penguin, 1966.
NW	Friedrich Nietzsche. Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe. 15 vols. Ed. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch, 1988.
PG	G. W. F. Hegel. Phänomenologie des Geistes. Vol. 3 of Werke, 20 vols. Ed. Eva Moldenhauer and Karl Markus Michel. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1986. Phenomenology of Spirit. Trans. Andrew Miller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.
ROC	Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Œuvres complètes. 5 vols. Ed. Bernard Gagnebin and Marcel Raymond. Paris: Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1959–95. The Confessions. Trans. J. M. Cohen. New York: Penguin, 1954.
WW	Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder. Sämtliche Werke und Briefe: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe. 2 vols. Ed. Silvio Vietta and Richard Littlejohns. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1991. Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder’s Confessions and Fantasies. Trans. Mary H. Schubert. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971 (translations from the Herzensergießungen and the Phantasien über die Kunst).