Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

by Friedrich Nietzsche , Edited by Rolf-Peter Horstmann , Edited and translated by Judith Norman

• ISBN13: 9780521779135
• ISBN10: 0521779138
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most scathing and powerful critiques of philosophy, religion, science, politics and ethics ever written. In it, Nietzsche presents a set of problems, criticisms and philosophical challenges that continue both to inspire and to trouble contemporary thought. In addition, he offers his most subtle, detailed and sophisticated account of the virtues, ideas, and practices which will characterize philosophy and philosophers of the future. With his relentlessly energetic style and tirelessly probing manner, Nietzsche embodies the type of thought he wants to foster, while defining its historical role and determining its agenda. This edition offers a new and readable translation, by Judith Norman, of one of the most influential texts in the history of philosophy, together with an introduction by Rolf-Peter Horstmann that sets it in its historical and philosophical context.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Chronology	xxix
Further reading	xxxii
Note on the text	xxxiv
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Preface	3	(2)
On the prejudices of philosophers	5	(20)
The free spirit	25	(18)
The religious character	43	(15)
Epigrams and entr'actes	58	(17)
On the natural history of morals	75	(18)
We scholars	93	(16)
Our virtues	109	(22)
Peoples and fatherlands	131	(20)
What is noble?	151	(27)
From high mountains: Aftersong	178	(3)
Glossary of names	181	(5)
Index	186