Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:29th Feb '24
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Daniel Conway guides you through one of the most clearly developed statements of Nietzsche’s mature philosophy, section by section. Adopting an interpretative approach throughout, Daniel Conway treats Beyond Good and Evil as a coherent, unified and carefully crafted complete text. When treated this way, the text reveals itself as a guide to the education that Nietzsche prescribes for his best readers, at the brink of the new post-moral era. Conway makes sense of the overarching aims and structure of the book at the same time as providing a broader context for the arguments Nietzsche makes and the positions he stakes out. Requiring no prior knowledge of the text or of Nietzsche, he guides you through the text with the reward of a more developed reading of the distinctly political agenda that emerges in the second half.
Daniel Conway’s Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil is an extremely helpful, admirably erudite and deeply persuasive commentary on Nietzsche’s book. He takes more seriously than anyone known to me Nietzsche’s professed intention to help his readers become the kind of readers that his Thus Spoke Zarathustra needed but lacked, and thereby to prepare them to live some day in the distant future in a world beyond the polarity of good and evil. He thus introduces the topic of what it is for a philosophy to change a life, and he follows that theme brilliantly throughout his book. -- Robert Pippin, University of Chicago
Daniel Conway’s study of Beyond Good and Evil is a notable example of how contemporary academic commentators can address a specialized, academic audience while also reaching out to the 'free spirits' of a much wider, global readership -- Paul Bishop, University of Glasgow * Filozofia *
ISBN: 9781474435451
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264 pages