The latest volume in the massive ongoing scholarly project that is the Historischer und kritischer Kommentar zu Friedrich Nietzsches Werken (in which, to date, six have already been published) is a commentary by Barbara Neymeyr on Nietzsche's UM, or at least the first two, “David Strauss, the Confessor and Writer” and “On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life.” (The remaining two “Untimelies,” on Schopenhauer and Wagner, will appear in volume NK, 1/4; NK, 1/1 on BT and NK, 1/3, a slim volume dedicated to TL, have already appeared in 2012 and 2016, respectively.)
In several respects this commentary on the first two “Untimelies” could not, in contradistinction to Nietzsche's ironic (or not-so-ironic) title, be more timely, inasmuch as these essays are often (and unjustly) overlooked, even though recent scholarship over the past few years suggests this situation is changing (see, for instance, Shilo Brooks, Nietzsche's Culture...
