Beyond Good and Evil

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Penguin UK, Feb 27, 2003 - Philosophy - 240 pages

'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael Tanner

Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects traditional Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche seeks to demonstrate that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual impose their own 'will to power' upon the world.

Translated by R. J. HOLLINGDALE With an Introduction by MICHAEL TANNER

 

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Contents

INTRODUCTION
FURTHER READING
COMMENTARY
CHRONOLOGY
Copyright

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About the author (2003)

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) published, among other titles, Human, All Too Human and The Dawn. He divorced himself from public life and, in 1889, became insane, remaining in a condition of mental and physical paralysis until his death. R J Hollingdale translated eleven of Nietzsche's books and published two books about him. Michael Tanner is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.

Bibliographic information

TitleBeyond Good and Evil
Penguin classics
AuthorFriedrich Nietzsche
Translated byR. J. Hollingdale
ContributorMichael Tanner
Editionreprint
PublisherPenguin UK, 2003
ISBN0141902639, 9780141902630
Length240 pages
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Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Philosophy / Good & Evil
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
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