On the Genealogy of Morals explores issues at the very core of human nature in three powerful essays.
Friedrich Nietzsche was born near Leipzig in 1844. When he was only
twenty-four he was appointed to the chair of classical philology at
Basel University. From 1880, however, he divorced himself from
everyday life and lived mainly abroad. Works published in the 1880s
include The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and
Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, Twilight of the Idols and The
Antichrist. In January 1889, Nietzsche collapsed on a street in
Turin and was subsequently institutionalized, spending the rest of
his life in a condition of mental and physical paralysis. Works
published after his death in 1900 include Will to Power, based on
his notebooks, and Ecce Homo, his autobiography.
Michael A. Scarpitti is an independent scholar of philosophy whose
principal interests include English and German thought of the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Robert C. Holub is currently Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of
German at the Ohio State University. Among his published works are
monographs on Heinrich Heine, German realism, Friedrich Nietzsche,
literary and aesthetic theory, and J rgen Habermas.
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