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ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCH...

The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil   the three essays included here offer vital
insights into Nietzsche's theories of morality and human psychology.   Nietzsche claimed that
the purpose of The Genealogy of Morals was to call attention to his previous writings. But in
fact the book does much more than that  elucidating and expanding on the cryptic aphorisms of
Beyond Good and Evil and signalling a return to the essay form. In these three essays 
Nietzsche considers the development of ideas of 'good' and 'evil'  explores notions of guilt
and bad consience  and discusses ascetic ideals and the purpose of the philosopher. Together 
they form a coherent and complex discussion of morality in a work that is more accessible than
some of Nietzsche's previous writings.  Friedrich Nietzsche was born near Leipzig in 1844. When
he was only twenty-four he was appointed to the chair of classical philology at Basel
University. From 1880  however  he divorced himself from everyday life and lived mainly abroad.
Works published in the 1880s include The Gay Science   Thus Spoke Zarathustra   Beyond Good and
Evil   On the Genealogy of Morals   Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist . In January 1889
Nietzsche collapsed on a street in Turin and was subsequently institutionalized  spending the
rest of his life in a condition of mental and physical paralysis. Works published after his
death in 1900 include Will to Power   based on his notebooks  and Ecce Homo   his
autobiography.  Michael A. Scarpitti is an independent scholar of philosophy whose principal
interests include English and German thought of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries  as
well as exegesis and translation theory.  Robert C. Holub is currently Ohio Eminent Scholar and
Professor of German at the Ohio State University. Among his published works are monographs on
Heinrich Heine  German realism  Friedrich Nietzsche  literary and aesthetic theory  and Jürgen
Habermas.

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