Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil

A new translation by Marion Faber

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BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (1844-1900) was born in Rocken, Saxony, and educated at the universities of Bonn and Leipzig. At the age of only 24 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basle, but prolonged bouts of ill health forced him to resign from his post in 1879. Over the next decade he shuttled between the Swiss Alps and the Mediterranean coast, devoting himself entirely to thinking and writing. His early books and pamph

lets (T he Birth o.f Tragedy, Untimely Meditations) were heavily influ enced by Wagner and Schopenhauer, but from Human, All Too Human (1878) on, his thought began to develop more indepen

dently, and he published a series of ground-breaking philosophical

works (T he Gay Seima, T hus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Go()d and Evil, On the Genealogy ofJl,forals) which culminated in a frenzy of

production in the dosing months of 1888. In January 1889 Nietz sche suffered a mental breakdown from which he was never to recover, and he died in Weimar eleven years later.

MARION FABER is Professor of German at Swarthmore College in Pennsy lvania. Her earlier translations include Nietzsche's

Human, All Too Human (1994) and Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Afozal't (1983), a nominee for the American Book Award in trans

lation.

ROBERT C. HOLUB teaches German intellectual, cultural, and literary history in the German department at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his numerous publications on these

topics are Reflections of Realism (1991); Jurgen Habermas: Critic in the Public Sphere (1991); Crossing Borders: Reception Them)!, Poststruauralism, Deconstruction (1992); and Friedrich Nietzsche (1995)? He is the editor of Impure Reason: Dialectic ofEnlightenment in Germany (1993), Resp()nsibiliZy and Commitment (1996), and Hein rich Heine '5 Contested Identities (1998).

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Beyond Good and Evil

Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

Translated and Edited by MARION FABER

With an Introduction by ROBERT C. HOLUB

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