Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality
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Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality

A Critical Guide

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Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality

A Critical Guide

About this book

On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most influential, provocative, and challenging work of ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, fourteen leading philosophers offer fresh insights into many of the work's central questions: How did our dominant values originate and what functions do they really serve? What future does the concept of 'evil' have - and can it be revalued? What sorts of virtues and ideals does Nietzsche advocate, and are they necessarily incompatible with aspirations to democracy and a free society? What are the nature, role, and scope of genealogy in his critique of morality - and why doesn't his own evaluative standard receive a genealogical critique? Taken together, this superb collection illuminates what a post-Christian and indeed post-moral life might look like, and asks to what extent Nietzsche's Genealogy manages to move beyond morality.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780521518802
eBook ISBN
9781139153423
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Modern Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. NIETZSCHEā€™S ON THE GENEALOGYOF MORALITY
  3. CAMBRIDGE CRITICAL GUIDES
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Note on texts, translations, and references
  10. Introduction
  11. CHAPTER 1 The future of evil
  12. CHAPTER 2 On the nobility of Nietzscheā€™s priests
  13. CHAPTER 3 The genealogy of guilt
  14. CHAPTER 4 Why Nietzsche is still in the morality game
  15. CHAPTER 5 Who is the ā€œsovereign individualā€? Nietzsche on freedom
  16. CHAPTER 6 Ressentiment and morality
  17. CHAPTER 7 The role of life in the Genealogy
  18. CHAPTER 8 The relevance of history for moral philosophy: a study of Nietzscheā€™s Genealogy
  19. CHAPTER 9 Why would master morality surrender its power?
  20. CHAPTER 10 ā€œGenealogyā€ and the Genealogy
  21. CHAPTER 11 The promising animal: the art of reading On the Genealogy of Morality as testimony
  22. CHAPTER 12 Nietzsche and the ā€œaesthetics of characterā€
  23. CHAPTER 13 Nietzsche and the virtues of mature egoism
  24. Chapter 14 Une promesse de bonheur? Beauty in the Genealogy
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index