There probably are not many men who had more reason than Nietzsche to feel resentful and miserable: he grew up a sickly child, prone to severe headaches which often left him literally blind with pain. Today, Nietzsche tends to be thought of as a depressive nihilist, a man who believed in nothing, and an apologist for the atrocities of fascism-but no description could be further from the truth. I can think of few instances where an author's reputation is more different from the reality of who he was, what he believed, and what he wrote-perhaps only Machiavelli has been as profoundly misunderstood by history. "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. 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.įrederich 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. 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. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics.īeyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J.
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