Beyond Good and Evil / On the Genealogy of Morality: Volume 8

Beyond Good and Evil is Nietzsche's first sustained philosophical treatment of issues important to him. Unlike the expository prose of the essayistic period (1872—76), the stylized forays and jabs of the aphoristic period (1878—82), and the lyrical—philosophical rhetoric of the Zarathustra—period (1882—85), Beyond Good and Evil inscribes itself boldly into the history of philosophy, challenging ancient and modern notions of philosophy's achievements and insisting on a new task for "new phil...