Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche (author)  William Kaufman (Editor), Helen Zimmern (Translator)

One of the most influential books of the 20th century

Beyond Good and Evil is Nietzche's provocative and thought-provoking work of philosophy questioning centuries of western tradition, thought and morality. Building on Nietzche's, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil is a critical response to religion and other systems of moral conventions.

After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman with the 1886 publication of Beyond Good and Evil. Conventional morality is a sign of slavery, Nietzsche maintains, and the superman goes beyond good and evil in action, thought, and creation. Nietzsche especially targets what he calls a slave morality that fosters herdlike quiescence and stigmatizes the highest human types.In this pathbreaking work, Nietzsche's philosophical and literary powers are at their height: with devastating irony and flashing wit he gleefully dynamites centuries of accumulated conventional wisdom in metaphysics, morals, and psychology, clearing a path for such twentieth-century innovators as Thomas Mann, André Gide, Sigmund Freud, George Bernard Shaw, André Malraux, and Jean-Paul Sartre, all of whom openly acknowledged their debt to him.

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications 
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ Feb. 2000
• Print length ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
• ISBN : ‎  9780486298689