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For the first time in Penguin Classics: Nietzsche's accessible exploration of key ideas in his landmark Beyond Good and Evil--in a lucid new translation

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about interpretation and the history of ethics which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both. This is the most sustained of Nietzsche's later works and offers one of the fullest expressions of his characteristic... Read Full Overview

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers of the past 150 years and On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is his most important work on ethics and politics. A polemical contribution to moral and political theory, it offers a critique of moral values and traces... Read Full Overview

In 1887, with the view of amplifying and completing certain new doctrines which he had merely sketched in Beyond Good and Evil (see especially aphorism 260), Nietzsche published The Genealogy of Morals. This work is perhaps the least aphoristic, in form, of all Nietzsche's productions... Read Full Overview

Friedrich Nietzsche's classic polemic detailing his thoughts on morality and its foundations.

On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic (Genealogy of Morals) is an 1887 book by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It consists of a preface and three interrelated essays that expand and follow through on concepts Nietzsche sketched out in Beyond Good and Evil (1886). The... Read Full Overview

My thoughts concerning the genealogy of our moral prejudices-for they constitute the issue in this polemic- have their first, bald, and provisional expression in that collection of aphorisms entitled Human, all-too-Human, a Book for Free Minds, the writing of which was begun... Read Full Overview

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about interpretation and the history of ethics which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both. This is the most sustained of Nietzsche's later works and offers one of the fullest expressions of his characteristic... Read Full Overview

Written in response to a book on the origins of morality by his erstwhile friend Paul R?e, the three essays comprising The Genealogy of Morals -- all three advancing the critique of Christian morality set forth in Beyond Good and Evil -- are among Nietzsche's... Read Full Overview

The three interrelated treatises trace episodes in the evolution of moral concepts with a view to confronting moral prejudices, specifically those of Christianity and Judaism. In the first treatise, Nietzsche demonstrates that the two pairs of opposites "good/evil"... Read Full Overview

LA GENEALOG A DE LA MORAL es la obra m s sombr a y cruel de Friedrich Nietzsche. Su primer tratado se ocupa de la contraposici n entre los conceptos de "bueno" y "malo", as como de la posterior transformaci n de su significado por obra de la interpretaci n judeo-cristiana. El... Read Full Overview

La genealog a de la moral, critica la moral vigente a partir del estudio del origen de los principios morales que rigen Occidente desde S crates. Nietzsche es contrario a todo tipo de raz n l gica y cient fica, dir a la iglesia, y que por ello lleva a cabo una cr tica feroz a... Read Full Overview

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about interpretation and the history of ethics which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both. This is the most sustained of Nietzsche's later works and offers one of the fullest expressions of his characteristic... Read Full Overview