Reading Nietzsche

An Analysis of Beyond Good and Evil

von Douglas Burnham

336 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Beyond Good and Evil is one of the classics of western philosophy. Pithy, lyrical, and complex, it demands that readers have some familiarity with key Nietzschean concepts such as the will-to-power, perspectivism, and eternal recurrence and that they be able to leap with Nietzschean agility across metaphysics, psychology, religion, morality, and politics. As a concise and comprehensive statement of Nietzsche's mature philosophy, it has served many readers as the point of entry into Nietzsche's work as a whole.

Reading Nietzsche is an authoritative and insightful examination of this landmark text that explains its central concepts. In setting this analysis within a comprehensive exposition of Nietzsche's ideas, the book serves as a guide both to Beyond Good and Evil and to Nietzsche's philosophy in general.

• ISBN: 9780773532502
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.02.2007
• Größe: 235 x 160 mm
• Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press