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Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche issues The Will to Power as if it were his systematic book

In 1901 the Nietzsche-Archiv issued Der Wille zur Macht, a constructed ‘main work’ from fragments. In the causal graph this event strengthens Institutional Corruption, a driver that strengthens Political corruption index — a worsening welfare path.

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In 1901 the Nietzsche-Archiv issued Der Wille zur Macht, a constructed ‘main work’ from fragments.

Context

He wrote notebooks. She and her helpers arranged a system that served later politics. This is her fact with his name on the spine.

Friedrich Nietzsche’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

The 1901 Wille zur Macht is her compilation from notebooks. He did not prepare that book. Store as later archive manipulation under his heading, not as his treatise.

Why it matters

Notebooks remain notebooks. Colli-Montinari later undid the fake spine.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Klassik Stiftung Weimar — Nietzsche-ArchivKlassik Stiftung Weimar · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Friedrich NietzscheStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Klassik Stiftung’s Archiv history and Stanford independently treat Will to Power as a posthumous compilation, not his designed book.

Established: 1901 public Will to Power from the Archiv. Not established: that he numbered that book as his summa.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorFriedrich Nietzsche
  2. contributed toFactElisabeth Förster-Nietzsche issues The Will to Power as if it were his systematic book
  3. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
  4. strengthensIndicatorPolitical corruption index

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Factrail. (2026). Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche issues The Will to Power as if it were his systematic book. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/nie-will-to-power-1901

https://factrail.ai/facts/nie-will-to-power-1901

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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