In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. ‘One of the greatest books of a very great thinker’ Michael Tanner.

If you enjoyed Beyond Good and Evil you might like Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, also available in Penguin Classics. Lawrence, Thomas Mann and Jean-Paul Sartre, was considerable. A powerfully original thinker, Nietzsche’s influence on subsequent writers, such as George Bernard Shaw, D.H. He divorced himself from society until his final collapse in 1899 when he became insane. Frederich Nietzsche (1844-1900) became the chair of classical philology at Basel University at the age of 24 until his bad health forced him to retire in 1879. This edition includes a commentary on the text by the translator and Michael Tanner’s introduction, which explains some of the more abstract passages in Beyond Good and Evil. With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own ‘will to power’ upon the world.

Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a ‘slave morality’. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche’s position as the towering European philosopher of his age. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics. Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J.

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