Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

Author(s): Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Philosophy

'What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.' Always provocative, the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist and philosopher-seer, passionately unmasking European society with his piercing insights and uncanny prescience. This masterpiece of his maturity considers quintessential Nietzschean topics such as the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism; the questionable virtues of science and scholarship; liberal democracy, nationalism, and women's emancipation. Written in his most masterful style, full of irreverence and brio, Nietzsche dissects self-deluding human behaviour, bankrupt intellectual traditions, and the symptoms of social decadence, while at the same time advancing an extra-moral wisdom to be shared by those kindred soul who think 'beyond good and evil'.This new translation of Beyond Good and Evil provides readers with a true classic of modernity that sums up those forces and counterforces in nineteenth-century Western Civilisation that to an astonishing degree have also determined and continue to inform the course of our own century.


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  • : 9780199537075
  • : Oxford University Press
  • : Oxford University Press
  • : 0.17
  • : August 2008
  • : 196mm X 129mm X 11mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

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  • : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  • : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  • : 240
  • : 240
  • : 193
  • : 193
  • : 0811
  • : 0811
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback