Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Beyond-Good-and-Evil-by-Friedrich-Nietzsche: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