Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality and Other Writings
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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 the historical evolution of concepts such as guilt, conscience, responsibility, law and justice. First published in 1994, and revised in 2006, the third edition of this best-selling, concise introduction and translation has been revised and updated throughout, to take account of recent scholarship. Featuring an expanded introduction, an updated bibliography and a guide to further reading, the third edition also includes timelines and biographical synopses. The Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought edition of Nietzsche's major work is an essential resource for both undergraduate and graduate courses on Nietzsche, the history of philosophy, continental philosophy, history of political thought and ethics.
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Reading this book, and reading Nietzsche as an author, was something requiered of me this last academic semester. I first did not understand how or where the classes were going to lead to. I did not understand why we we kept focussing on the same text and the same few pages of Nietzsche's Genealogo of Morality.
It was only when a different professor called Nietzsche's style as a “shotgun style” of philosophy. It was at this point that I started to understand the appeal of Nietzsche. Nietzsche, in my opinion, is not an author widely read and cited because of his overarching ideas and theories, but rather for his quick insights and digressions on side topics that highlight his opinions on more varied topics such as art, artists, philosophers, civilization. It is due to these small insights that I think of Nietzsche as the profressor and philosopher of close reading. As Nietzsche says “I admit that you need one thing above all in order to practise the requisite art of reading (...) rumination”.
