On the genealogy of morals : a polemic : by way of clarification and supplement to my last book, Beyond good and evil / Friedrich Nietzsche ; translated with an introduction and notes by Douglas Smith.

By:

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 [author.]

Contributor(s):

Smith, Douglas (French studies specialist) [translator.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: World's classicsPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996Description: 1 online resource (xxxvii, 170 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191561023
0191561029
0585111103
9780585111100

Uniform titles:

Zur Genealogie der Moral. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: On the genealogy of morals.DDC classification:

170 23

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B3313.Z73 N5413 1996

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Translation; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Friedrich Nietzsche; ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORAL; Explanatory Notes; Index.

Summary: On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the 4entral values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures. The result is a book which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both ethicsand interpretation. Nietzsche questions moral certainties by showing that religion and science have no claim to absolute trut.

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Includes bibliographical references (page xxxiv) and index.

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Translation; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Friedrich Nietzsche; ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORAL; Explanatory Notes; Index.

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the 4entral values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures. The result is a book which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both ethicsand interpretation. Nietzsche questions moral certainties by showing that religion and science have no claim to absolute trut.

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