NIETZSCHE, Friedrich.
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of Future.
Edinburgh and London: T. N. Foulis , 1907.
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"The time for petty politics is past: the very next century will bring with it the struggle for mastery over the whole earth": First edition of Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of Future
First English edition of Nietzsche's classic philosophical work which expands on the ideas of Thus Spoke Zarathustra with a more critical and polemical approach. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Translated by Helen Zimmern. In very good condition. An exceptional example.
Of the four "late-period" writings of Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil most closely resembles the aphoristic style of his middle period. In it he exposes the deficiencies of those usually called "philosophers" and identifies the qualities of the "new philosophers": imagination, self-assertion, danger, originality, and the "creation of values". He then contests some of the key presuppositions of the old philosophic tradition like "self-consciousness", "knowledge", "truth", and "free will", explaining them as inventions of the moral consciousness. In their place, he offers the "will to power" as an explanation of all behavior; this ties into his "perspective of life", which he regards as "beyond good and evil", denying a universal morality for all human beings. Religion and the master and slave moralities feature prominently as Nietzsche re-evaluates deeply held humanistic beliefs, portraying even domination, appropriation and injury to the weak as not universally objectionable. In several places of the book, Nietzsche drops hints, and even explicit statements as to what the philosophies of the future must deal with.
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of Future.
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