On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

by Nietzsche, Friedrich; Kaufmann, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780679724629
• ISBN10: 0679724621
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-12-17
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

The great philosopher's major work on ethics, along with ECCE HOMO, Nietzche's remarkable review of his life and works. Translated by Walter Kaufmann.

Author Biography

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later. Known for saying that “god is dead,” Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended.

Walter Kaufmann was a philosopher and poet, as well as a renowned translator of Friedrich Nietzsche. His books include Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist, From Shakespeare to Existentialism, and Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sartre. He was a Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, where he taught after receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1947 until his death in 1980. He held visiting appointments at many American and foreign universities, including Columbia, Cornell, Heidelberg, Jerusalem, and the Australian National University; and his books have been translated into Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.

Table of Contents

ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS	3	(198)
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION	3	(12)
NIETZSCHE'S PREFACE	15	(9)
I. "Good and Evil," "Good and Bad"	24	(33)
II. "Guilt," "Bad Conscience," and the Like	57	(40)
III. What Is the Meaning of Ascetic Ideals?	97	(70)
APPENDIX: Seventy-five Aphorisms from Five Volumes	167	(34)
ECCE HOMO	201	(138)
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION	201	(9)
A NOTE ON THE PUBLICATION OF Ecce Homo	210	(7)
NIETZSCHE'S PREFACE	217	(5)
Why I Am So Wise	222	(14)
Why I Am So Clever	236	(23)
Why I Write Such Good Books	259	(67)
The Birth of Tragedy	270	(6)
The Untimely Ones	276	(7)
Human, All-Too-Human	283	(7)
Dawn	290	(3)
The Gay Science	293	(2)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra	295	(15)
Beyond Good and Evil	310	(2)
Genealogy of Morals	312	(2)
Twilight of the Idols	314	(3)
The Case of Wagner	317	(9)
Why I Am a Destiny	326	(13)
APPENDIX: Variants from Nietzsche's Drafts	339	(6)
INDEX TO On the Genealogy of Morals	345	(8)
INDEX TO Seventy-five Aphorisms	353	(4)
INDEX TO Ecce Homo	357