Besides the English translation of What is Orientation? A Philosophical Investigation, only a small number of Werner Stegmaier’s texts are available in English. You can find the entire list of Stegmaier’s publications on his website: www.stegmaier-orientierung.de. Here, we compile all articles that are currently available in English:
Nietzsche’s Techniques of Philosophizing: With Glances Towards Wittgenstein and Heidegger
Werner Stegmaier. Lecture delivered at the Nietzsche Gesellschaft conference, October 2025. English translation by Henry Holland. Originally published on Nietzsche POParts, January 2026.
Nietzsche and the Philosophy of Orientation: A Conversation with Werner Stegmaier
Interview between Werner Stegmaier and Paul Stephan, originally in German: December 2025. English translation: March 2026
Which Way to GO? How I became the Philosopher of Orientation
Written in English by Werner Stegmaier, in Greifswald (Germany), November 2023.
The Art of Living as an Art of Orientation
Published in: Nietzsche on the Art of Living: New Studies from the German-Speaking Nietzsche Research, edited by Günter Gödde, Jörg Zirfas, Reinhard G. Mueller, and Werner Stegmaier (Nashville: Orientations Press, 2023), which you can download for free here.
Nietzsche’s Project of Religion: His Critique, Analysis, and Functionalization of Religion
How Does “the New” Come into the World? Nietzsche’s Magic of the Extreme
Orientation Within Nihilism: A Response to Paul van Tongeren
English publication in Beyond Nihilism?, ed. Chris Bremmers / Andrew Smith / Jean-Pierre Wils (Nordhausen: Traugott Bautz, 2018), p. 85-96.
“Resolute Reversals”: Kant’s and Nietzsche’s Orienting Decisions Concerning the Distinction between Reason and Nature
English publication in: Nietzsche’s Engagements with Kant and the Kantian Legacy, 3 volumes, ed. Marco Brusotti / Herman Siemens / Joâo Constâncio / Tom Bailey / Maria Joâo Mayer Branco / Katia Hay Nietzsche; Vol. I: Nietzsche, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, ed. Marco Brusotti / Herman Siemens (London/Oxford/New York/New Delhi/Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 181-204.
Nietzsche’s Orientation toward the Future
Presented in German in Sils-Maria, Switzerland, in September 2015; English translation published in: The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 47.3 (Autumn 2016), pp. 384-401.
Note: This was the article that first caught Mike Hodges’ attention and drew him to the philosophy of orientation.
Subjects as Temporal Clues to Orientation: Nietzsche and Luhmann on Subjectivity
English publication in: Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity, ed. João Constâncio / Maria João Mayer Branco/ Bartholomew Ryan (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2015), pp. 487-511.
The Moral Challenges of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Nihilism: 7 Theses
Beyond the Free Spirit Trilogy
Werner Stegmaier in Discussion with the Editors, Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy Issue 25 (2014), ed. Matthew Dennis / David Rowthorne: Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Works, pp. 177-186.
Fearless Findings. Instinct and Language in Book V of the Gay Science
English publication in: Nietzsche on Instinct and Language, ed. João Constancio / Maria João Mayer Branco (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2011), pp. 185-200.
After Montinari. On Nietzsche Philology
Published in German in Nietzsche-Studien 36 (2007): 80–94. English Translation in: The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 38 (Fall 2009), p. 5-19.
Nietzsche’s Doctrines, Nietzsche’s Signs
Published in German in Nietzsche-Studien 29 (2000). English translation in: The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 31 (Spring 2006), p. 20-41.
Nietzsche’s Theology: Perspectives for God, Faith, and Justice
English publication in: New Nietzsche Studies (New York) 4, 3/4 (2000-2001), p. 73-89.