{"product_id":"beyond-good-evil-nietzsche-9780140449235","title":"Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBeyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA Penguin Classics Book: \u003cem\u003eBeyond Good and Evil \u003c\/em\u003eby Friedrich Nietzsche\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFriedrich Nietzsche's \u003cem\u003eBeyond Good and Evil \u003c\/em\u003eis translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeyond Good and Evil\u003c\/em\u003e confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003cstrong\u003e'slave morality'.\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes a commentary on the text by the translator and Michael Tanner's introduction, which explains some of the more abstract passages in \u003cem\u003eBeyond Good and Evil\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrederich 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA powerfully original thinker,\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eBeyond Good and Evil\u003c\/em\u003e you might like Nietzsche's \u003cem\u003eThus Spoke Zarathustra\u003c\/em\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics. 'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael Tanner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Book Series: Penguin Classics \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaders trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bust-Down Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50292661682491,"sku":"014044923X","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/2077\/7531\/files\/27380123482237.jpg?v=1747225773","url":"https:\/\/bustdownbooks.com\/products\/beyond-good-evil-nietzsche-9780140449235","provider":"Bust-Down Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}