Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil

by Daniel Conway

Overview

Daniel Conway guides you through one of the most clearly developed statements of Nietzsche’s mature philosophy, section by section. Adopting an interpretative approach throughout, Daniel Conway treats Beyond Good and Evil as a coherent, unified and carefully crafted complete text. When treated this way, the text reveals itself as a guide to the education that Nietzsche prescribes for his best readers, at the brink of the new post-moral era. Conway makes sense of the overarching aims and structure of the book at the same time as providing a broader context for the arguments Nietzsche makes and the positions he stakes out. Requiring no prior knowledge of the text or of Nietzsche, he guides you through the text with the reward of a more developed reading of the distinctly political agenda that emerges in the second half.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474435468
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	02/01/2024
Series:	Edinburgh Critical Guides to Nietzsche
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Daniel Conway is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Affiliate Professor of Film Studies and Religious Studies, and Courtesy Professor in the School of Law and the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Nietzsche and the Political (Routledge, 1997), Nietzsche’s Dangerous Game: Philosophy in the Twilight of the Idols (Cambridge UniversityPress, 1997, 2002) and Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals: A Reader’s Guide (Bloomsbury, 2008). He is the co-editor of The Political of Irony: Essays in Self-Betrayal (St Martin’s Press, 1992), Nietzsche: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, Volume IV (Routledge, 1998), Nietzsche Philosophy and the Arts (Cambridge UniversityPress, 1998), Søren Kierkegaard: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Volume I, II, III, IV (Routledge, 2002), The History of Continental Philosophy, Volume II (Acumen and the University of Chicago Press, 2010), Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling: A Critical Guide (Cambridge UniversityPress, 2015) and Nietzsche and the Antichrist: Religion, Politics and Culture in Late Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2019).

Table of Contents

Chronology

IntroductionThe Title and Subtitle of BGENietzsche’s Aims in BGENietzsche’s Target Readership

1. Nietzsche’s Preface
2. Part One: On the Prejudices of PhilosophersPreviewSummary of SectionsThe Will to TruthThe Will to Truth and the Prejudices of PhilosophersUntruth as a Condition of LifeIntroducing the Will to PowerPsychology: The Once and Future Queen of the SciencesReview
3. Part Two: The Free SpiritPreviewSummary of SectionsThe Self-Overcoming of MoralityReintroducing the Will to PowerTurning to the FutureReview
4. Part Three: The Religious CharacterPreviewSummary of SectionsDissolving the Paradox of the SaintThe Religious InstinctThe Misanthropic Atheism of Modern PhilosophyThe 'New' PhilosophersThe Calamity of European ChristianityReview
5. Part Four: Epigrams and InterludesPreviewSummary of SectionsNietzsche’s InfluencesRecurring Themes and Persistent MotifsReview
6. Part Five: On the Natural History of MoralityPreviewSummary of SectionsThe Imperative of NatureThe Moral NeurosisThe "New" Philosophers: Commanders and LegislatorsReview
7. Part Six: We ScholarsPreviewSummary of SectionsPhilosophers as LegislatorsScholarly VirtuesWhat A Philosopher Is (and Does)Review
8. Part Seven: Our VirtuesPreviewSummary of SectionsRevisiting the VirtuesThe Many Colors of VirtueThe Many Costumes of Virtue'We Immoralists!'A New TaskReview
9. Part Eight: Peoples and FatherlandsPreviewSummary of SectionsThe German SoulCreating a Home for European JewryHow Europe May Become OneReview
10. Part Nine: What is Noble? PreviewSummary of SectionsExploiting a "Turning Point in History"Nobility and Self-respectDionysus RevealedReview
11. From Lofty Mountains: AftersongPreviewSummary of Stanzas 1–13Summary of Stanzas 14–15Review

Glossary of Key TermsGuide to Further Reading on Beyond Good and EvilBibliographyIndex

Editorial Reviews

Daniel Conway’s study of Beyond Good and Evil is a notable example of how contemporary academic commentators can address a specialized, academic audience while also reaching out to the 'free spirits' of a much wider, global readership

Filozofia - Paul Bishop

Daniel Conway’s Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil is an extremely helpful, admirably erudite and deeply persuasive commentary on Nietzsche’s book. He takes more seriously than anyone known to me Nietzsche’s professed intention to help his readers become the kind of readers that his Thus Spoke Zarathustra needed but lacked, and thereby to prepare them to live some day in the distant future in a world beyond the polarity of good and evil. He thus introduces the topic of what it is for a philosophy to change a life, and he follows that theme brilliantly throughout his book.

Robert Pippin