On the Genealogy of Morality

by Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark (Translator), Alan J. Swensen (Translator)

Overview

This new edition is the product of a collaboration between a Germanist and a philosopher who is also a Nietzsche scholar. The translation strives not only to communicate a sense of Nietzsche’s style but also to convey his meaning accurately—and thus to be an important advance on previous translations of this work. A superb set of notes ensures that Clark and Swensen's Genealogy will become the new edition of choice for classroom use.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872202832
Publisher:	Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/1998
Series:	Hackett Classics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Maudemarie Clark is Professor of Philosophy, Colgate University. Alan J. Swensen is Associate Professor of German, Colgate University.

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

Hackett's On the Genealogy of Morality (we now have even the correct title!) may very well change the entire climate for reading Nietzsche in English—especially if read in conjunction with their equally splendid Twilight of the Idols. . . . Competing translations of Nietzsche’s late, utterly influential masterpieces have often made them a chore, rather than a delight, to read; and their introductions generally obscure, rather than illuminate, the texts’ situations. Clark and Swensen (and Polt and Strong) have made the Genealogy and Twilight accessible and exhilarating—while leaving them, as they are, enigmatic and problematic. Finally, readers of Nietzsche in English can—begin!—William Arctander O'Brien, University of California, San Diego

This unique collaboration of an internationally renowned Nietzsche commentator and a scholar of German language and literature has yielded the finest existing edition of Nietzsche’s book in English. The translation itself strikes an intelligent balance between fidelity to the German and readability in English. It is especially welcome for bringing an historically and philosophically sensitive appreciation of Nietzsche to bear on translation issues. (The decision to translate Mitleid consistently as 'compassion,’ instead of 'pity'—thus emphasizing for the English-language reader Nietzsche’s opposition to Schopenhauer’s moral philosophy—is but one of many examples.) The Introduction is the most philosophically substantial guide to the Genealogy in any edition, and will be of value to both student and specialist. Most remarkable of all are the notes on the text: the wealth of biographical, historical, philosophical, and literary detail makes the volume the most informative and reader-friendly edition of Nietzsche's work to date. The notes will also prove fascinating for the scholar, as the editors have tracked down the numerous contemporary scholarly sources on which Nietzsche relied in writing the Genealogy.—Brian Leiter, University of Texas at Austin

This is an excellent translation. The copious and detailed endnotes will make it easy for a beginner to grasp Nietzsche's thought—Fred Clark, Colorado State University

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