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On the Genealogy of Morals - A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
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On the Genealogy of Morals - A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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`Reason, seriousness, mastery over the emotions, the whole murky
affair which goes by the name of thought, all the privileges and
showpieces of man: what a high price has been paid for them! How
much blood and horror is at the bottom of all "good things!"' On
the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of
ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a
history of cruelty, exposing the central values of the
Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality,
justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning
designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures.
The result is a book which raises profoundly disquieting issues
about the violence of both ethics and interpretation. Nietzsche
questions moral certainties by showing that religion and science
have no claim to absolute truth, before turning on his own
arguments in order to call their very presuppositions into
question. The Genealogy is the most sustained of Nietzsche's later
works and offers one of the fullest expressions of his
characteristic concerns. This edition places his ideas within the
cultural context of his own time and stresses the relevance of his
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