num_pages: 367
description: On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is Nietzche's major work on ethics. It shows him using philosophy, psychology, and classical philology in an effort to give new directions to an ancient discipline. The work consists of three essays. The first contrasts master morality with slave morality and indicates how the term "good" has widely different meanings in each. The second inquiry deals with guilt and the bad conscience; the third with ascetic ideals—not only in religion but also in the academy.Ecce Homo, written in 1888 and first published posthumously in 1908, is Nietzche's review of his life and works. It contains separate chapters on all the books he himself published. His interpretations are as fascinating as they are invaluable. Nothing Nietzche wrote is more stunning stylistically or as a human document.Walter Kaufmann has again provided masterful translations that are faithful to the word and spirit of Nietzche. In an Appendix to the Genealogy, Professor Kaufmann also offers aphorisms from Nietzche's earlier books, many of them referred to by Nietzche in the Genealogy, but never before published in the same volume. An Appendix to Ecce Homo contains drafts and variants, not previously translated. This edition also contains indices to each volume and to the aphorisms. Walter Kaufmann's running footnote commentaries on both books are more comprehensive than those in his other Nietzche translations because these two works have been so widely misunderstood. He also has contributed an illuminating introductory essay to each title.
language: English
title: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
titlecomplete: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
characters: Richard Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Bernard Shaw, Ovid (Roman), Arthur Schopenhauer, Zarathustra, William Shakespeare, Zeus (god)
genres: Theory, Religion, Philosophy, German Literature, Nonfiction, Psychology, School, Classics, College, History
ratings_count: 15232
publisher: Random House USA