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Original Title:	Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift
ISBN:	019283617X (ISBN13: 9780192836175)
Edition Language:	English

On the Genealogy of Morals

Friedrich Nietzsche

Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

Rating: 4.12 | 17843 Users | 622 Reviews

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Title	:	On the Genealogy of Morals
Author	:	Friedrich Nietzsche
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	February 25th 1999 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published 1887)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Nonfiction. Classics. European Literature. German Literature

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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 work for a contemporary audience.

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In Jenseitz von Gut und Böse (1886) moral philosopher and cultural critic Friedrich Nietzsche claimed the death knell had sounded for Christian morality and emphasized the need for a perspective on life that is (literally) beyond good and evil. He followed up this interesting work with an equally interesting publication: Zur Genealogie der Moral, On the Genealogy of Morals. This book contains three long essays on the origins of our morality, and Nietzsche looks for answers to the question Whence

Nietzsche suffers from an unfortunate tendency to baselessly and endlessly interpret--which is really a shame, given that his philology and historiography are so themselves interesting. Powerfully alive writing, profound analysis and original thought, and incalculable influence is brought down to sophistry by its own conclusions.

":( church fatherz suk" - neechshit

A rating is irrelevant for this book. So much that is perceptive is presented cheek by jowl with idiotic asides and offensive statements that I dont know how to assess it overall. Im assuming at least some of the chaotic style is due to the fact that Nietzsche was tripping balls when he was writing this.

Very readable, once I got into it. I would recommend to anyone wanted to make a start with Nietzsche, and it's really short too. He was obviously a very troubled man as well as a bit of a psychologist. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't give a second thought to my opinion though - I'm definitely one of the sick. From a history of ideas point of view, his take-up of ideas about degeneration and frequent health and illness related metaphors are particularly useful. And good to read in conjunction with

Fascinating series of essays. I think Nietzsche is one of the most original thinkers I've come into contact with, and every part of his "polemic" gave me something new to think about, argue with, or even laugh at. Even in translation, with lots of ellipses, exclamations, italics, etc., there is a playfulness to his probing, far-reaching and creative criticism of orthodoxy. The essays are analyzing 1) the origin of good and evil (as opposed to good and bad) - much of his earlier thinking about

Nietzsche sets himself upon a gargantuan task with his Genealogy. Within its 3 short essays, and with a mixture of devilish delight and horror, he embarks upon a full excavation of the Western moral system. Primarily deploying etymology and physiology as his methodological devices, he creates a diachronic analysis of some of our most dear, instinctive, and holy values.For Nietzsche, things have gone terribly wrong in Western civilized society: life has turned against itself, the animal in man