Thomas H. Brobjer

Biografi

Books published since 2021:

1. Nietzsche’s ‘Ecce Homo’ and the Revaluation of All Values: Dionysian versus Christian Values. Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

A highly positive review in Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP, April 2023: “It is difficult to review a book so rich in consequences and seemingly sui generis […] this book also heralds a great future for Nietzsche scholarship, for what it calls and awakens a hunger for is the revaluation of both the Nachlass and Nietzsche’s final two books”.

2. Nietzsche’s Reading and Knowledge of Philosophy: A Study, Survey and Handbook, Peter Lang, 2023.

This book is an in-depth study of Nietzsche’s reading and his knowledge of philosophy and philosophers. It examines his relation to the major European thinkers and Eastern traditions, as well as his knowledge and reading of intellectual women and journals of philosophy.

3. ‘Twilight of the Idols’ and Nietzsche’s Late Philosophy: Toward a Revaluation of Values, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

“Brobjer’s monograph on Twilight of the Idols is a substantial contribution to the international Nietzsche debate, particularly because the author is able to combine the perspective of philosophy and the perspective of intellectual history. The book is of great relevance for all scholars in the field” Andreas Urs Sommer.

4. The Close Relationship between Nietzsche’s Two Most Important Books, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2023.

Over a thousand downloads within the first year of this study of the relationship between Also sprach Zarathustra and his planned but unfinished four-volume Revaluation of All Values.

5. Nietzsche’s Revaluation of All Values. Cambridge Elements. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Nietzsche frequently turned other questions such as epistemological and ontological ones into axiological ones, making values pivotal in his thought. It is possible to argue that the revaluation of all values is both the most important and today the most relevant of Nietzsche’s main philosophical themes and projects. Furthermore, the theme is intimately involved with what Nietzsche regarded as his most important work, his unfinished magnum opus (that he called his Hauptwerk), for a long period called The Will to Power but later Revaluation of All Values.

Further books in the process of being published:

1. Atlas of the History of Modern Science. Springer Verlag, 2025.

2. The Young Nietzsche: An Intellectual Biography and Handbook of His Life and Reading 1850-1869. Walter de Gruyter, 2025.

3. Nietzsche’s The Antichrist as Part of and Key to His Unfinished Revaluation of All Values. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2025.

Forskning

Scholarly Publications by Thomas H. Brobjer, Feb. 2025

My earliest publications, in chemistry and physics, are placed last. Apart from my first doctoral dissertation in theoretical chemistry/molecular physics (that has also been published electronically), I also have seven publications in international journals in the fields of chemistry and physics.

Books

A1. Nietzsche's Ethics of Character: A Study of Nietzsche's Ethics and Its Place in the History of Moral Thinking (Uppsala, 1995). ISSN 0280 - 7238.

A2. Nietzsche's Philosophical Context: An Intellectual Biography. Published in the series International Nietzsche Studies by the University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 2008.

A3. Nietzsche and the 'English': The Influence of British and American Thinking on His Philosophy. Published in the series JHP Books (Journal of the History of Philosophy Books) by Prometheus Press, 2008.

A4. Nietzsche’s ‘Ecce Homo’ and the Revaluation of All Values: Dionysian versus Christian Values. Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

A5. Nietzsche’s Reading and Knowledge of Philosophy: A Study, Survey and Handbook, Peter Lang, 2023.

A6. ‘Twilight of the Idols’ and Nietzsche’s Late Philosophy: Toward a Revaluation of Values, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

A7. The Close Relationship between Nietzsche’s Two Most Important Books, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2023.

A8. Nietzsche’s Revaluation of All Values. Cambridge Elements. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Editor of Books

A'1. Nietzsche and Science. Editor, together with Dr. Gregory Moore. Ashgate Press. (Aldershot, Burlington, 2004). ISBN 0 7546 3402 7.

A'2. Brobjer has been one of four chief editors of the Swedish edition of Nietzsches samlade verk (Nietzsche's Collected Works) in ten volumes. The first two volumes appeared at the end of 2000, the third 2001, the fourth 2004 and the fifth during 2005, and continued thereafter.

A'3. Brobjer partook as editor for the special issue of Res Publica 48/50 (December 2000) about Nietzsche.

A’4. Nietzsches samlade verk (Nietzsche's Collected Works): Volume 5: Den glada vetenskapen (The Gay Science). 2009.

A’5. Nietzsches samlade verk (Nietzsche's Collected Works): Volume 8: Den sene Nietzsches skrifter. (The Late Nietzsche's Writings). 2013.

Published Articles in Scholarly Journals and Chapters in Books

B1. 'Nietzsches moral och moralkritik', in Från Hermetism till rationell distribution: Föredrag vid idéhistorisk konferens 1992, Red. Bosse Sundin (Idéhistoriska skrifter 14), Umeå 1993, 65-69. [Written in Swedish: 'Nietzsche's Morality and his Critique of Morality'.]

B2. 'Nietzsches bibliotek: särskilt hans naturvetenskapliga böcker', Lychnos: Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria, 1994, 139-151. [Written in Swedish: 'Nietzsche's Library: Especially his Books on Natural Science'.]

B3. 'Perspektiv på Nietzsche', Review-article for Lychnos, 1995. (Review and discussion of six books on Nietzsche.) Lychnos, 1995, 197-202. [Review article written in Swedish: 'Perspectives on Nietzsche'.]

B4. 'On the Revaluation of Values', Nietzsche-Studien 25 (1996), s. 342-348.

B5. 'Beiträge zur Quellenforschung', Nietzsche-Studien 26 (1997), 574-579.

B6. 'Nietzsche's Reading and Private Library 1885-89', Journal of the History of Ideas 58 (1997), 663-693.

B7. 'Platon - En demokratins förespråkare', Tvärsnitt 4 (1997), 46-51. ['Plato - A Defender of Democracy'. Written in Swedish].

B8. 'The Absence of Political Ideals in Nietzsche's Writings: The Case of the Laws of Manu and the Associated Caste-Society', Nietzsche-Studien 27 (1998), 300-318.

B9. 'An Undiscovered Short Published Autobiographical Presentation by Nietzsche from 1872', Nietzsche-Studien 27 (1998), 446f.

B10. 'Nietzsche's Knowledge, Reading and Critique of Political Economy', Journal of Nietzsche Studies 18 (Fall 1999), 57-70.

B11. 'Beiträge zur Quellenforschung 2', Nietzsche-Studien 28 (1999), 356-358.

B12. 'Two of Nietzsche's Letters from 1888 as Published Material', Nietzsche-Studien 28 (1999), 266.

B13. 'Götzen-Hammer: The Meaning of the Expression "To Philosophize with a Hammer"', Nietzsche-Studien 28 (1999), 38-41.

B14. 'Nietzsche's Education at the Naumburg Domgymnasium 1855-1858', Nietzsche-Studien 28 (1999), 302-322.

B15. 'An Undiscovered Short Published Autobiographical Presentation by Nietzsche from 1869', Journal of Nietzsche Studies 17 (Spring 1999), 68-69.

B16. 'Grekiska filosofer och deras namn'. Together with Dr. Johan Flemberg. Medusa 1 (1999), 14-23. ['Greek Philosophers and their Names']

B17. 'Nietzsche's Forgotten Book: The Index to the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie', New Nietzsche Studies 4 (Summer/Fall 2000), 157-161.

B18. 'Nietzsche's Atheism'. First chapter in Nietzsche and the Divine, edited by Jim Urpeth and John Lippitt (Manchester, 2000), 1-13.

B19. The articles 'Nietzsche in Skandinavien', 'Nietzsches Bibliothek', 'Darwinismus' and 'Züchtung' in Nietzsche-Handbuch (Stuttgart, Weimar, 2000), edited by Henning Ottmann, 59-60, 212-213, 360-361 and 516-520.

B20. 'Nietzsches sista oavslutade filosofiska projekt - en omvärdering av alla värden', Res Publica 48/50 (Dec. 2000), 445-450. ['Nietzsche's Last Unfinished Philosophical Project - the Revaluation of All Values']

B21. 'Beiträge zur Quellenforschung 3', Nietzsche-Studien 30 (2001), 418-421.

B22. 'Nietzsche's Changing Relation to Christianity: Nietzsche as Christian, Atheist and Antichrist', in Nietzsche and the Gods (SUNY), edited by Weaver Santaniello (New York, 2001), 137-157.

B23. 'Nietzsche's Changing View of the Sophists', International Studies in Philosophy 33 (Fall 2001), 5-23.

B24. 'Nietzsche's First Four Years at Schulpforta: A Review of Nietzsche Werke: Kritische Gesamtausgabe (KGW) I.2: Nachgelassene Aufzeichnungen Herbst 1858 - Herbst 1862', review essay for Journal of Nietzsche Studies 21 (Spring 2001), 96-101.

B25. 'A Discussion and a Source of Hölderlin's Influence on Nietzsche', Nietzsche-Studien 30 (2001), 397-412.

B26. 'Why Did Nietzsche Receive a Scholarship to Schulpforta?', Nietzsche-Studien 30 (2001), 322-328.

B27. 'Nietzsche as Political Thinker: A Response to D. Dombowsky', Nietzsche-Studien 30 (2001), 394-396.

B28. 'Nietzsche's Knowledge of Marx and Marxism', Nietzsche-Studien 31 (2002), 298-313.

B29. 'Nietzsche as German Philosopher: His Reading of the Classical German Philosophers.' Nietzsche and the German Tradition, ed. Nicholas Martin (Oxford, 2003), 39-82.

B30. 'Nietzsche's Knowledge of Kierkegaard'. Journal of the History of Philosophy 41 (2003), 251-263.

B31. 'Beiträge zur Quellenforschung 4', Nietzsche-Studien 32 (2003), 438-452.

B32. 'Nietzsche's Reading of Epictetus', Nietzsche-Studien 32 (2003), 429-434.

B33. 'Nietzsche and the Laws of Manu' has been selected to be included in the anthology Eastern Influences on Western Philosophy: A Reader, edited by A. L. Macfie, Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh, 2003), 260-278. Earlier published in Nietzsche-Studien 27 (1998) under the title 'The Absence of Political Ideals in Nietzsche's Writings: The Case of the Laws of Manu and the Associated Caste-Society'. Compare B7.

B34. 'Nietzsche's Affirmative Morality: An Ethics of Virtue', Journal of Nietzsche Studies 26 (Autumn 2003), 64-78.

B35. 'Politik, rasism och nationalism hos Nietzsches', Res Publica 58 (2003), 132-140. [Politics, Racism and Nationalism by Nietzsche]

B36. 'A Possible Solution to the Stirner-Nietzsche Question'. Journal of Nietzsche Studies 25 (Spring, 2003), 109-114.

B37. 'Nietzsche's Wrestling with Plato' in Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition, edited by Paul Bishop (Rochester, 2004), 241-259.

B38. 'Nietzsche's Knowledge of Spinoza' in Spinoza in Nordic Countries, edited by Vesa Oittinen (Helsinki, 2004), 203-216.

B39. 'Women as Predatory Animals or Why Nietzsche Philosophized with a Whip' in A Nietzschean Bestiary: Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal, edited by Christa Davis Acampora and Ralph R. Acampora (Lanham, 2004), 181-192.

B40. 'Nietzsche's Reading and Knowledge of Natural Science: An Overview'. Presented at the Friedrich Nietzsche Society conference in Cambridge, England, Sept. 6-9 2001, published in Nietzsche and Science (2004), edited by Gregory Moore and Thomas Brobjer, 21-50 (cf. A'1).

B41. 'Nietzsche's Reading about Indian Philosophy', Journal of Nietzsche Studies 28 (Autumn 2004), 3-36.

B42. 'Nietzsche's View of the Value of Historical Studies and Methods', Journal of the History of Ideas 65 (2004), 301-322.

B43. Assisted in the work of writing a commentary to the late Nietzsche’s letters, led by Dr. Renate Müller-Buck. KGB III.7/3.1 and 2 (Walter de Gruyter, 2004).

B44. 'Nietzsche's Reading about China and Japan', Nietzsche-Studien 34 (2005), 329-336.

B45. 'Beiträge zur Quellenforschung 5', Nietzsche-Studien 34 (2005), 337f.

B46. 'Nietzsche’s Relation to the Greek Sophists', Nietzsche-Studien 34 (2005), 255-276.

B47. 'Sources and Influences on Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy', Nietzsche-Studien 34 (2005), 277-298.

B48. ’Nietzsche’s magnum opus’, History of European Ideas 32 (September 2006), 278-294.

B49. 'Nietzsche's Reading of Women Authors', Zur unterirdischen Wirkung von Dynamit: Vom Umgang Nietzsches mit Büchern zum Umgang mit Nietzsches Büchern, edited by M. Knoche, J.H. Ulbricht and J. Weber, Harrassowitz Verlag (Wiesbaden, 2006), 35-46.

B50. 'The Development of Nietzsche's Ethical Thinking' in Nietzsche and Ethics, ed. by Gudrun von Tevenar (Bern, 2007), 283-310.

B51. 'Nietzsche's Relation to Historical Methods and Nineteenth Century German Historiography', History and Theory 46 (May 2007), 155-179.

B52. 'Nietzsche lettore della filosofia orientale', Nietzsche: Edizioni e interpretazioni, ed. by Maria Cristina Fornari (Pisa, 2008), 63-96. Presenterat på konferens i Lecce, mars 2003, och skiljer sig lite från den tidigare publicerade 'Nietzsche's Reading about Indian Philosophy'.

B53. ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra as Nietzsche's Autobiography’, in Before Sunrise: Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by James Luchte, Continuum Publisher (London, New York, 2008), 29-46.

B54. ’The Antichrist as the First Volume of Nietzsche’s magnum opus’, Ideas in History 3 (2008), 83-106.

B55. 'The Late Nietzsche's Fundamental Critique of Historical Scholarship' in Nietzsche on Time and History, edited by Manuel Dries (Berlin, New York, 2008), 51-60.

B56. 'Beiträge zur Quellenforschung 6', in Nietzsche-Studien 37 ( 2008), 295, 304-306.

B57. 'Critical Aspects of Nietzsche’s Relation to Politics and Democracy’, in Nietzsche, Power and Politics, edited by Herman Siemens och Vasti Roodt (Berlin, New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2008), 205-227.

B58. 'Efterord till Nietzsches Den glada Vetenskapen'. Efterord till det femte bandet av den svenska utgåvan av Friedrich Nietzsche Samlade Skrifter i tio volymer (2009), 251-260. [Introduction and notes to Nietzsche’s The Gay Science, for the Swedish translation and edition.]

B59. 'Socrates’ Writings: A Discussion of the Authenticity and Significance of the Attributed Fragments' (tillsammans med Dr. Johan Flemberg), Eranos 104 (2009), 19-27.

B60. 'Nietzsche, Voltaire and French Philosophy', in Nietzsche und Frankreich, edited by Clemens Pornschlegel and Martin Stingelin, (Berlin, New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2009), 13-31.

B61. “Atheismus”, “Plato”, “Naumburger Domgymnasium” and “Blond; die blonde Bestie” in Nietzsche-Lexicon, edited by Christian Niemeyer (Darmstadt, 2009).

B62. 'The Origin and Early Context of Nietzsche’s Revaluation of All Values’, Journal of Nietzsche Studies 2010, 12-29.

B63. ‘Politik’. New article for the revised second edition of the Nietzsche-Lexicon, edited by Christian Niemeyer, published by the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft in (Darmstadt, 2011), 303-305.

B64. 'The Place and Role of Der Antichrist in Nietzsche’s Four Volume Project Umwerthung aller Werthe', Nietzsche-Studien 40 (2011), 244-255.

B65. 'Nietzsche’s Early Writings'. Chapter in A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche, edited by Paul Bishop, Boydell & Brewer in their Camden House imprint 2012, 24-47.

B66. 'Nietzsche’s Last View of Science', in Nietzsches Wissenschaftsphilosophie, ed. by H. Heit, G. Abel and M. Brusotti, (New York, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2012), 39-54.

B67. 'Efterord till Nietzsches sena skrifter'. Efterord, inklusive noter, till det åttonde bandet av den svenska utgåvan av Friedrich Nietzsche Samlade Skrifter i tio volymer (2013), 365-427. Inklusive översättning av tre verk; Nietzsche kontra Wagner, Avgudaskymning och Antikrist. [Introduction and notes to Nietzsche’s late books, for the Swedish translation and edition.]

B68. 'Nietzsche and Economics', in Handbuch: Nietzsche und die Wissenschaften, ed. by H. Heit and L. Heller (New York, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2014), 307-321.

B69. ‘Classical Philology and Racism’, Athens Journal of History, 5 (2019), 157-168.

B70. 'The Roles of Zarathustra and Dionysos in Nietzsche’s Ecce homo and Late Philosophy ' in Nietzsche’s „Ecce Homo“, ed. by D. Large and N. Martin (New York, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2021), 235-261.

B71. ‘Quellenforschung’ in Nietzsche-Studien 50 (2021), 316-319.

B72. ‘Sources of Nietzsche’s Knowledge and Critique of Anarchism’, Nietzsche-Studien 50 (2021), 300-310.

Forthcoming during 2025:

B73. ‘Englische Philosophie’ in Nietzsche Handbuch (Metzler Verlag), revised edition, 2025. Accepted for publication, awaiting publication in 2025.

B74. ‘Nietzsche’s Knowledge and Critique of Anarchism’ in Nietzsche Handbuch (Metzler Verlag), revised edition, 2025. Accepted for publication, awaiting publication in 2025.

B75. “Aristotle” in Handbook of Nietzsche’s Philosophers (Walter de Gruyter), to be published 2025. My contribution has been accepted.

Three further articles have been accepted for publication in the new, more philologically oriented, journal Studia Nietzscheana in 2019 and 2020. However, this new journal has had problems to get started, but will begin to publish articles in 2025 I have been informed, including my three articles.

B76. ‘The Liberal Nietzsche? A Discussion of His Reading of and Response to J. Popper‘s Das Recht zu leben und die Pflicht zu sterben (Leipzig, 1879)’, Studia Nietzscheana.

B77. ‘The Young Nietzsche's Reading of the “Philosophical” Journal Anregungen für Kunst, Leben und Wissenschaft’, Studia Nietzscheana.

B78. ‘A New Likely Source for the Young Nietzsche’s Views of the Romans’, Studia Nietzscheana.

B79. A Turkish translation of a revised version of my article. 'A Possible Solution to the Stirner-Nietzsche Question', Journal of Nietzsche Studies 25 (Spring, 2003), 109-114.

Scientific Publications in the Fields of Chemistry and Physics

Dissertation:

G1. Intermolecular potentials for small polar molecules (Doctoral dissertation at the University of Sussex in theoretical chemistry, 1983)

Scientific Articles:

H1. V. Boggaram, T. Brobjer, K. Larsson and B. Mannervik, 'Purification of Glutathione Reductase from Porcine Erythrocytes of the Use of Affinity Chromatography on 2',5'-ADP-sepharose 4B and Crystallization of the Enzyme', Analytical Biochemistry 98 (1979), 335-352.

H2. J.T. Brobjer and J.N. Murrell, 'A Comparison of the Multipole Expansion and Point Charge Models of the Electrostatic Energy between Polar Diatomic Molecules', Chemical and Physical Letters 77, 601 (1981).

H3. J.T. Brobjer and J.N. Murrell, 'A Method for Calculating the Electrostatic Energy between Small Polar Molecules: The Multipole-fitted Point-charge Method', Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions 2, 78, 1852 (1982)

H4. J.T. Brobjer, 'Discussion', Faraday discussions, Chemical Society, 73, 123:128 (1982)

H5. J.T. Brobjer and J.N. Murrell, 'Geometries of van der Waals Complexes of Small Polar Molecules', Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions 2, 79, 1455 (1983)

H6. J.T. Brobjer and J.N. Murrell, 'The Intermolecular Potential for HF', Molecular Physics, 50, 885 (1983)

H7. S. Bosanac, J.T. Brobjer and J.N. Murrell, 'Second virial coefficient of gaseous HF and rotational inelastic scattering for HF-HF collisions', Molecular Physics, 51, 313 (1984)