Jenseits von Gut und Böse (Beyond Good and Evil) BOUND WITH Zur Genealogie der Moral (On the Genealogy of Morals) by NIETZSCHE, Friedrich - 1886

Leipzig: C.G. Naumann,, 1886. First edition. Very Good +. First Editions of TWO of Nietzsche’s most important worksNIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse (Beyond Good and Evil) BOUND WITH Zur Genealogie der Moral (On the Genealogy of Morals). C.G. Naumann, Leipzig, 1886 & 1887. TP + [III]-VI + [VI] = Inhalt + halftitle + [3]-271 + [272] = Berichtigungen + TP + [III]-XIV + half title + [1]-182 + [183] = Inhalt + [184] = Printer’s information,.Octavo. First Editions Schaberg 40 and 53.Nietzsche had only 600 copies of each of these works privately printed.Considered by most to be Nietzsche's most important philosophical work, Beyond Good and Evil was the first of Nietzsche's "self-published" books. The work consists of nine interlocking chapters that delineate the profile and the task of the "free spirit" and the "philosopher of the future" and contains some of Nietzsche's most insightful and barbed attacks on previous philosophers, as well as many of his most powerfully and elegantly formulated analyses. As perhaps nowhere else, the Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil fulfilled his own criterion of literary greatness: “To say in one sentence what others have required a book to say – and then to say what they did not say as well!” By any standard, Beyond Good and Evil is among the greatest books in Western Culture. It is difficult to imagine another in which one can find so much. Here, for the first time, Nietzsche proposes a "natural history of morals" and proposes that the revaluation of former values is the central task to be accomplished by the philosopher of the future – this indeed would be the primary task of his own final works. He begins: “If a person should regard even the effects of hatred, envy, covetousness and the lust to rule as conditions of life, as factors which, fundamentally and essentially, must be present in the general economy of life (and must, therefore, be further enhanced if life is to be further enhanced) – he will suffer from such a view of things as from seasickness. And yet even this hypothesis is far from being the strangest and most painful in this immense and almost new domain of dangerous insights…” In addition, Nietzsche’s concept of will to power plays a prominent and central role in the book, as does his famous analysis of master and slave morality, which is mentioned here for the first time.The Genealogy, meant to be an elaboration and an extension of Beyond Good and Evil, has generated more scholarly comments in the past twenty years than any other book that Nietzsche wrote. The book’s structure, which is more transparently discursive than most of his other works, is that of three sustained and interlocking essays. The first addresses the origins of our conceptions of "good" and "bad," as against those of “good” and “evil” and contains Nietzsche's famous analysis of master morality and slave morality (a topic he had first introduced in Beyond Good and Evil the previous year). The second essay traces the origin of a "bad conscience" – the phenomenon of the soul taking sides against itself – while the third and final essays attacks the Christian advocacy of ascetic ideals, even while recognizing that “almost everything we call ‘higher culture’ rests on the spiritualization of, and giving depth to, cruelty (against oneself).” Throughout, Nietzsche employs his "genealogical" method, which has proven to be so influential in the 20th century, most notably in the work of Michel Foucault. The work has been a traditional locus of confusion among simplistic readers of Nietzsche’s work: the apparent racial distinction, between master-morality and slave-morality, which Nietzsche ironically derived from the banal racist Gobineau, is turned to decidedly un-racial purposes. But then, Nietzsche’s meaning has never stood between his many ideological interpreters and their purposes.CONDITION: Very good or better. Bound in contemporary quarter leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers. Light pencil notes to some pages. A beautiful copy, all original, of two of Nietzsche’s most important works. 

CONDITION: Very good or better. Bound in contemporary quarter leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers. Light pencil notes to some pages. A beautiful copy, all original, of two of Nietzsche’s most important works. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST