On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche

On the Genealogy of Morals

Friedrich Nietzsche with Douglas Smith (Translator)

208 pages first pub 1887 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about interpretation and the history of ethics which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both. This is the most sustained of Nietzsche's later works and offers one of the fullest e...

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reflective 86%
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