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This collection's 1st rendition was released with other unpublished writings in '01, edited by Heinrich Köselitz, Ernst & August Horneffer, under Nietzsche's anti-Semitic sister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche's influence. This version is more than dubious. Later editions are considered more subtle in their presentation of Nietzsche's intent. Kaufmann's divides as European Nihilism/Critique of the Highest Values Hitherto/Principles of a New Evaluation/Discipline & Breeding.
Mazzino Montinari & Giorgio Colli, who edited the complete edition of Nietzsche's posthumous fragments from the mss themselves, have called The Will to Power a "historic forgery" artificially assembled by his sister & Peter Gast. Altho he had in 1886 announced at On the Genealogy of Morals' end a new work entitled, The Will to Power: Essay of a Transvaluation of all Values, this project was abandoned, its draft materials used to compose The Twilight of the Idols & The Antichrist (1888). The Will to Power, which EFN called his unedited magnum opus, was in fact abandoned by Nietzsche himself.
Nevertheless, the concept remains, & has, since the reading of Karl Löwith, been identified as a key component of Nietzsche's philosophy. The Will to Power was not written by him. But the concept of "will to power" is certainly in itself a major motif of his philosophy. Under Löwith's influence, Heidegger considered it to form, with the eternal recurrence, the basis of his thought.
After returning from Paraguay, EFN founded the Nietzsche-Archiv in Naumburg in 1894 after Nietzsche's mental breakdown, which she would later transfer to Weimar. The culmination of this organization was the publishing, in Leipzig (1894-1926), of the Großoktavausgabe edition. It was 1st edited by C.G. Naumann, then by Kröner. In these 20 volumes, EFN included part of his posthumous fragments, which she gathered together & entitled The Will To Power. With Peter Gast, she claimed that he'd died before completing his magnum opus, which he allegedly wanted to name "The Will to Power, in Attempt at a Revaluation of All Values". This compilation of his posthumous fragments, selected & ordered under his her authority, led to the book commonly called The Will to Power. Until Colli & Montinari's edition, this would form the basis for all successive editions, including the '22 Musarion edition.
While researching for the Italian translation of Nietzsche's complete works in the '60s, philologists Giorgio Colli & Mazzino Montinari decided to go to the Leipzig Archives to work with the original documents. From their work emerged the 1st complete chronological edition of his posthumous fragments, which EFN had cut up, mixed & pasted together, according to her own antisemitic views (a bone of contention between the siblings). The complete works comprise 5,000 pages, compared to 3,500 pages of the Großoktavausgabe. In '64, during the Paris Internat'l Colloquium on Nietzsche, Colli & Montinari met Karl Löwith, who would put them in contact with Heinz Wenzel, editor for Walter de Gruyter's publishing house. Heinz Wenzel would buy the rights of the complete works of Colli & Montinari (33 volumes in German) after the French Gallimard & the Italian Adelphi editions.
Before Colli & Montinari's philological work, previous editions led readers to believe that Nietzsche had organized all his work toward a final structured opus called The Will to Power. In fact, if he did consider producing such a book, he had abandoned such plans. The title of The Will to Power, which appears for the first time at the end of the summer of 1885, was replaced by another plan at the end of 8/1888. This plan was titled "Project for a reversion of all values", & ordered the multiple fragments in a completely different way than the one chosen by EFN.
According to Montinari, earlier editions, which all depended on the Großoktavausgabe, are technically nonsense, as Nietzsche's fragments were cut up in various places & ordered according to his sister's will; & are a case of revisionism, as it was left to EFN to artificially combine his fragments into a unified opus magnum, whose meaning was distorted according to her biases. Gilles Deleuze himself saluted Montinari's work: "As long as it was not possible for the most serious researcher to accede to the whole of Nietzsche's manuscripts, we knew only in a loose way that the Will to Power did not exist as such...We wish only now that the new dawn brought on by this previously unpublished work will be the sign of a return to Nietzsche."
Not only did this philological work, a milestone in Nietzsche studies, prove case-by-case the distortions accomplished by EFN on his posthumous fragments, it also called into question the very conception of a Nietzschean magnum opus, given his style of writing & thinking.