Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality and Other Writings

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers of the past 150 years and On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is his most important work on ethics and politics. A polemical contribution to moral and political theory, it offers a critique of moral values and traces the historical evolution of concepts such as guilt, conscience, responsibility, law and justice. This is a revised and updated edition of one of the most successful volumes to appear in Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Keith Ansell-Pearson has modified his introduction to Nietzsche\'s classic text, and Carol Diethe has incorporated a number of changes to the translation itself, reflecting the considerable advances in our understanding of Nietzsche in the twelve years since this edition first appeared. In this new guise the Cambridge Texts edition of Nietzsche\'s Genealogy should continue to enjoy widespread adoption, at both undergraduate and graduate level.

• Revised and updated to take account of new scholarship in this area • Nietzsche’s influence on contemporary culture remains massive, as one of the most widely studied of all nineteenth-century thinkers • Offers timelines, biographical synopses plus a concise introduction and up-to-date translation

Acknowledgements and a note on the text; A note on the revised edition; Editor’s introduction: On Nietzsche’s critique of morality; Chronology; Guide to further reading; Biographical synopses; On the Genealogy of Morality; Supplementary material to On the Genealogy of Morality; ‘The Greek State’; ‘Homer’s Contest’; Index of names; Index of subjects.