Simona de Logu (asker) May 8, 2021:

Thank you so much everyone for your input!

Susan Starling May 5, 2021:

More info on Nachlass Googling "Nachlassnotiz" gave me an idea of what's meant here - one thing to keep in mind being that a "Nachlassnotiz" is not (necessarily) something that's written after an author's death but is commonly written by the authors themselves. Which is apparently the case here, as the sentence refers to something Nietzche wrote himself in 1881 (he died in 1900). As Ramey pointed out, "Nachlass" is often left untranslated in philosophical texts (like here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/97813150... It looks like a lot of "Nachlassnotizen" were written by Nietzche before his death as a sort of summarization of his philosophical expressions. At first I thought something like "unpublished comment/note" was on the right track, but do we actually know that the Notiz wasn't published at the time? Because "unpublished" would refer to the Notiz, not his legacy works. No time to research further though I'm very curious about this - there must be a standard way to refer to this in English philosophical texts. Good luck!

philgoddard May 5, 2021:

Go for it!

Ramey Rieger (X) May 5, 2021:

unpublished commentary might work here.

Ramey Rieger (X) May 5, 2021:

Literary legacy/unpublished works From what I can glean from various sites, his Nachlass comprised unpublished works, compiled and published by Mazzino Montinari. On many sites, the word Nachlass is not translated:
http://brianleiternietzsche.blogspot.com/2017/06/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3653949?seq=1
"The Will to Power (German: Der Wille zur Macht) is a book of notes drawn from the literary remains (or Nachlass) of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche by his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Peter Gast (Heinrich Köselitz). The title derived from a work that Nietzsche himself had considered writing. The work was first translated into English by Anthony M. Ludovici in 1910, and it has since seen several other translations and publications."

philgoddard May 5, 2021:

I think it means a review that now forms part of his estate, so it's telling the reader where they can find it.