| Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future Revised Edition Contributor(s): Nietzsche, Friedrich (Author) |
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ISBN: 048629868X ISBN-13: 9780486298689 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $4.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1997 Annotation: One of the most popular of the 19th-century philosophers refines his previously expressed ideal of the superman in a fascinating examination of human values and morality. This inexpensive, unabridged edition of one of Nietzsche's most important works offers a rich sampling of the philosopher's influential school of thought. Publisher's Introduction. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Literary Collections - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 111.85 |
| LCCN: 97012411 |
| Lexile Measure: 1420 |
| Series: Dover Thrift Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.1" W x 8.19" (0.29 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman with the 1886 publication of Beyond Good and Evil. Conventional morality is a sign of slavery, Nietzsche maintains, and the superman goes beyond good and evil in action, thought, and creation. Nietzsche especially targets what he calls a slave morality that fosters herdlike quiescence and stigmatizes the highest human types. In this pathbreaking work, Nietzsche's philosophical and literary powers are at their height: with devastating irony and flashing wit he gleefully dynamites centuries of accumulated conventional wisdom in metaphysics, morals, and psychology, clearing a path for such twentieth-century innovators as Thomas Mann, Andr Gide, Sigmund Freud, George Bernard Shaw, Andr Malraux, and Jean-Paul Sartre, all of whom openly acknowledged their debt to him. Students of philosophy and literature as well as general readers will prize this rich sampling of Nietzsche's thought in an unabridged and inexpensive edition of one of the philosopher's most important works. |