Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, Paperback

Beyond Good and Evil (1886) offers an excellent, albeit challenging, introduction to the philosophical concerns of the Nietzsche's post-Zarathustran work. It is also exemplary of Nietzsche's period of greatest clarity and sophistication. Adopting an interpretative approach throughout, Daniel Conway assumes no previous knowledge of the text. He treats it as a coherent, unified and carefully crafted complete text. When read in this way, Beyond Good and Evil 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 while providing a broader context for Nietzsche's arguments and positions. As you progress through the text, you will be rewarded with a more developed reading of the distinctly political agenda that emerges in the second half of Beyond Good and Evil.

About author(s):
Daniel Conway is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Nietzsche and the Political (Routledge, 1997), Nietzsche's Dangerous Game: Philosophy in the Twilight of the Idols (Cambridge University Press, 1997, 2002) and Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals A Reader's Guide (Bloomsbury, 2008). He is the co-editor of The Political of Irony: Essays in Self-Betrayal (St Martin's Press, 1992), Nietzsche: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, Volume IV (Routledge, 1998), Nietzsche Philosophy and the Arts (Cambridge University Press, 1998), S�ren Kierkegaard: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Volume I, II, III, IV (Routledge, 2002), The History of Continental Philosophy, Volume II (Acumen and the University of Chicago Press, 2010), Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling: A Critical Guide (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Nietzsche and the Antichrist: Religion, Politics and Culture in Late Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2019).