Beyond good and evil
Subtitle: prelude to a philosophy of the future
By: translated and edited by Marion Faber ; with an introduction by Robert C. Holub.
Contributors: Faber, Marion.
Series: Oxford world's classics; Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Ethics; Philosophy
Description: "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 Judaeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginnings 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, this extraordinary book 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 souls who think 'beyond good and evil'."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxvii]-xviii) and index.