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Beyond Good And Evil Paperback – 5 May 2003

by Friedrich Nietzsche (Author)

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Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics.
Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. 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.
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.
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. He divorced himself from society until his final collapse in 1899 when he became insane. A powerfully original thinker, Nietzsche's influence on subsequent writers, such as George Bernard Shaw, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann and Jean-Paul Sartre, was considerable.
If you enjoyed Beyond Good and Evil you might like Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, also available in Penguin Classics.
'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker'
Michael Tanner

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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Penguin; 1 edition (5 May 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 014044923X
ISBN-13: 978-0140449235
Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 1.4 cm
Boxed-product Weight: 200 g
Average Customer Review: 4 customer reviews
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 662 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1 in History & Criticism of Renaissance Literature
- #2 in Modern Philosophy (Books)
- #2 in Literary Criticism & Theory (Books)

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) published, among other titles, Human, All Too Human and The Dawn. He divorced himself from public life and, in 1889, became insane, remaining in a condition of mental and physical paralysis until his death. R J Hollingdale translated eleven of Nietzsche's books and published two books about him. Michael Tanner is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.

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John Allyn Smith

A profound and duly challenging read

21 July 2019

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Unlike many other philosophers considered belonging to the 'western canon', Nietzsche takes great pleasure in shrouding his ideas in so much irony so as to make his true philosophical leanings almost indiscernible to the casual reader (unless, of course, you are willing to sit and labour over each aphorism for an hour). The penguin classics edition of this text muddies the water of Nietzsche's meaning even further by providing one of the most verbose and wordy translations of an already assuredly verbose author; be warned, casual reader! 'Beyond Good & Evil' is not an easy book to read, and it's an even less simple one to truly comprehend the exhaustive meaning of -- but it still functions as by far the most accessible of Nietzsche's writings, for the uninitiated. As for his ideas, I'm not a huge fan myself (he has a habit of relying all too heavily on ad hominem to get his 'points' across) but still, as one of the world's greatest thinkers (and an insatiable wit to match), Nietzsche's writing is, and always will be, undeniably worth reading -- even if just for Nietzsche's devilishly cynical sense of humour.

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Neal Ames

A Foundation of Modern Thought?

4 January 2019

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In the #metoo age it is refreshing to read the honesty that both German and Russian 18th century authors had and their appreciation for the true state of human nature. Neitzsche blows apart the concept of equality through a few choice thoughts and appreciations.

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Adam Satori

worth every penny

15 May 2019

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…. for someone who is interested in this kind of subject

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Amardeep Singh

This book deserves better.

15 January 2019

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Packing was not good, some marks on the cover, see picture for reference. Paper is too bright. This book deserves a best paper and quality printing.

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eBook is not the Kaufmann translation

17 March 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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The eBook and the version of the paperback showing the two eyes in a frame are not the Kaufmann translation. This translation is OK, but you should know that the product information is incorrect.

Additionally, the two versions I refer to use ALL CAPS instead of italics. Nietzsche loves his italics, especially in BGE. It's like he's screaming every other sentence.

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Jeremy David Stevens

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends 'eo ipso.'

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This is the third book I've read of Nietzsche's. The first was a collection from various writings, and the second was "The Anti-Christ." Beyond Good and Evil was Nietzsche's attempt to summarize his entire philosophy into one book. I don't know if I'd ever call anything Nietzsche wrote a summary, but this book does lay out his principles in black-and-white, and it did help me put some of the pieces together.

Below are a few of my takeaways. It's not a summary, because I don't even know if that's possible. So I just wanted to share a few things I've picked up on.

On the will to power:

If modern (nineteenth century) man is no longer going to believe in God, or at least if they're going to tone down His influence a bit, the next logical step for them was the concept of free will. In a post-enlightenment world, people were trying to understand if there really is a God pulling our strings like puppets. If they weren't going to believe that, the next logical step was free will. Nietzsche rejects free will and instead believes in the will to power. Essentially the will to power is his phrase that means people should aim to take power over themselves and create a "superman" or "overman" out of themselves. Nietzsche sees this as an alternative to the concept of free will.

On religion -

Another thing that I noticed about Nietzsche after reading a fair bit of his work is that, as critical as he is of Christianity, he seems to have a bit of an affinity for Buddhism, or at least the principles of Buddhism. Buddhism's primary concept is "life is suffering," right? Nietzsche writes extensively about suffering as well, arguing in part that the cause of all great human advancement is suffering. In the Anti-Christ, he often points out that Buddhism is better than Christianity. To be fair, there was a pretty short list of things that weren't better than Christianity, according to Nietzsche.

I love the short epigrams and how Nietzsche is capable of concentrating so much meaning into such few words-

"Blessed be the forgetful: for they forget their stupidities, too."

"Whoever reaches his ideal transcends 'eo ipso.'"

"'Where the tree of knowledge stands, there is always Paradise': thus speak the oldest and the youngest serpents."

*eo ipso = thereby

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This ebook is illegible. Someone just did an OCR scan of an existing translation, without fixing any of the problems. About once a sentence, two or more words are crammed together likethis.

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Andrew Z.

Create Space trash formatting ruins otherwise good read

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Terrible print job, Create Space. Margins are microscopic, spacing is awful, text is crammed in so tightly I need reading glasses. Buy any other copy.
Good words, bad publisher.

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The written material in this book is acceptable but the book itself, that being the page is not upon opening the book I discovered this. The first three pages had the top right-hand corner are bent to an angle as to where they are not attached to the binding and thus make an indent into the cover of the book which ruins the pristine and beautiful image on the cover with a bulge that is clearly visible. I request a refund or at the very least new copy of this book that is free of misprints.

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