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For the first time in Penguin Classics: Nietzsche's accessible exploration of key ideas in his landmark Beyond Good and Evil--in a lucid new translation

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about interpretation and the history of ethics which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both. This is the most sustained of Nietzsche's later works and offers one of the fullest expressions of his characteristic... Read Full Overview

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers of the past 150 years and On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is his most important work on ethics and politics. A polemical contribution to moral and political theory, it offers a critique of moral values and traces... Read Full Overview

Friedrich Nietzsche's classic polemic detailing his thoughts on morality and its foundations.

On the Genealogy of Morals is a book about interpretation and the history of ethics which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both. This is the most sustained of Nietzsche's later works and offers one of the fullest expressions of his characteristic concerns... Read Full Overview

In 1887, with the view of amplifying and completing certain new doctrines which he had merely sketched in Beyond Good and Evil (see especially aphorism 260), Nietzsche published The Genealogy of Morals. This work is perhaps the least aphoristic, in form, of all Nietzsche's productions... Read Full Overview

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about interpretation and the history of ethics which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both. This is the most sustained of Nietzsche's later works and offers one of the fullest expressions of his characteristic... Read Full Overview

La G?n?alogie de la Morale appartient aux oeuvres de la maturit? de Friedrich Nietzsche, puisqu'elle a ?t? publi?e en 1887, apr?s Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra. Dans cet essai, le penseur allemand traite de philosophie morale, cherchant ? retracer l'origine de nos conceptions morales... Read Full Overview

On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic (Genealogy of Morals) is an 1887 book by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It consists of a preface and three interrelated essays that expand and follow through on concepts Nietzsche sketched out in Beyond Good and Evil (1886). The... Read Full Overview

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers of the past 150 years and On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is his most important work on ethics and politics. A polemical contribution to moral and political theory, it offers a critique of moral values and traces... Read Full Overview

LA GENEALOG A DE LA MORAL es la obra m s sombr a y cruel de Friedrich Nietzsche. Su primer tratado se ocupa de la contraposici n entre los conceptos de "bueno" y "malo", as como de la posterior transformaci n de su significado por obra de la interpretaci n judeo-cristiana. El... Read Full Overview

Written in response to a book on the origins of morality by his erstwhile friend Paul R?e, the three essays comprising The Genealogy of Morals -- all three advancing the critique of Christian morality set forth in Beyond Good and Evil -- are among Nietzsche's... Read Full Overview

La genealog a de la moral, critica la moral vigente a partir del estudio del origen de los principios morales que rigen Occidente desde S crates. Nietzsche es contrario a todo tipo de raz n l gica y cient fica, dir a la iglesia, y que por ello lleva a cabo una cr tica feroz a... Read Full Overview

This new edition is the product of a collaboration between a Germanist and a philosopher who is also a Nietzsche scholar. The translation strives not only to communicate a sense of Nietzsche' s style but also to convey his meaning accurately' and thus to be an important advance... Read Full Overview

Written in response to a book on the origins of morality by his erstwhile friend Paul Rée, the three essays comprising The Genealogy of Morals -- all three advancing the critique of Christian morality set forth in Beyond Good and Evil -- are among Nietzsche's most sustained and... Read Full Overview