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Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics)

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Beyond Good and Evil, reissued by Penguin Classics, is a profound philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche. This 240-page edition, published in 2003, offers deep insights into morality and culture, suitable for readers aged 18 and up. It is a must-read for those seeking intellectual challenge.

Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics. Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche’s position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a ‘slave morality’. With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own ‘will to power’ upon the world. This edition includes a commentary on the text by the translator and Michael Tanner’s introduction, which explains some of the more abstract passages in Beyond Good and Evil. Frederich Nietzsche (1844-1900) became the chair of classical philology at Basel University at the age of 24 until his bad health forced him to retire in 1879. He divorced himself from society until his final collapse in 1899 when he became insane. A powerfully original thinker, Nietzsche’s influence on subsequent writers, such as George Bernard Shaw, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann and Jean-Paul Sartre, was considerable. If you enjoyed Beyond Good and Evil you might like Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, also available in Penguin Classics. ‘One of the greatest books of a very great thinker’ Michael Tanner

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Publisher

Penguin Classics

Publication date

April 29, 2003

Edition

Reissue

Language

English

Print length

240 pages

ISBN-10

014044923X

ISBN-13

978-0140449235

Item Weight

6.3 ounces

Reading age

18 years and up

Dimensions

7.76 x 5.08 x 0.57 inches

Lexile measure

1420L