Jenseits von Gut und Böse (Beyond Good and Evil) by NIETZSCHE, Friedrich - 1886

Leipzig: Naumann, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Nietzsches Most Important Work?

NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse (Beyond Good and Evil) Naumann, Leipzig, 1886. TP + [III]-VI + [VII] = Inhalt + half title + [3]-271 + [272] = Berichtigungen, Octavo. First Edition (Schaberg 40).

Nietzsche had 600 copies of this work privately printed by "vanity publisher".

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, Nietzsches 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.

CONDITION: Very good in a recent modern binding, 3/4 brown leather w/marbled boards, raised bands, and red leather label. Tight binding, lightly toned title page and interior. Small stain to edge of title page. Possible professional repair to "Forward". Clean interior. A beautiful copy in a high-end modern binding.


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