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Introduction: The Nietzsche-Wörterbuch

This article presents the project of the Nietzsche-Wörterbuch (NWB), a long-term, multi-volume reference work on Nietzsches (use of) language. The article offers some background on the project, focusing on its motivation in the need for a Nietzsche dictionary. It explains the working principles and method, as well as the structure of the lemmata. In the last section, an example of the results of the dictionary work is given, focused the concept of Größe and its relation to Nietzsche's project of Umwertuung.

language; Größe; metaphor; polysemy; reception; Umwertung


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