Dictionary as whip : on comforting the Nietzsche audience, Band I, Van Tongeren, Schank & Siemens (Eds.) : book review

'What a comfort a dictionary is!' writes Lewis Caroll in Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893). As any academic will testify, when everything else fails, consult a dictionary. This is however a privilege that the dedicated Nietzsche reader has hitherto been denied. While it is relatively easy to find a dictionary elucidating the terminology employed by Rousseau, Husserl, Kant and even Heidegger, one until now had to search in vain for a dictionary on Nietzsche. This is perhaps because Nietzsche, even in his most prosaic musings on epistemology, for instance, remained so much a poet, and poetry is the anti-lexicographical act par excellence.