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BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE KART...

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale
with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics. Beyond Good and Evil confirmed
Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically
rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God  good and evil.
Nietzsche demonstrates 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 imposes their own 'will to power' upon
the world. This edition includes a commentary on the text by the translator and Michael
Tanner's introduction  which explains some of the more abstract passages in Beyond Good and
Evil. Frederich Nietzsche (1844-1900) became the chair of classical philology at Basel
University at the age of 24 until his bad health forced him to retire in 1879. He divorced
himself from society until his final collapse in 1899 when he became insane. A powerfully
original thinker  Nietzsche's influence on subsequent writers  such as George Bernard Shaw 
D.H. Lawrence  Thomas Mann and Jean-Paul Sartre  was considerable. If you enjoyed Beyond Good
and Evil you might like Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra  also available in Penguin Classics.
'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael Tanner

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