Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

Hardback

Main Details

Title Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Friedrich Nietzsche
Edited by Maudemarie Clark
Edited by Brian Leiter
SeriesCambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:296
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 156
Category/GenreWestern philosophy - c 1600 to c 1900
Ethics and moral philosophy
ISBN/Barcode 9780521590501
ClassificationsDewey:170
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Edition 2nd Revised edition

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 13 November 1997
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Daybreak marks the arrival of Nietzsche's 'mature' philosophy and is indispensable for an understanding of his critique of morality and 'revaluation of all values'. This volume presents the distinguished translation by R. J. Hollingdale, with a new introduction that argues for a dramatic change in Nietzsche's views from Human, All Too Human to Daybreak, and shows how this change, in turn, presages the main themes of Nietzsche's later and better-known works such as On the Genealogy of Morality. The main themes of Daybreak are located in their intellectual and philosophical contexts: in Nietzsche's training as a classical philologist and his fascination with the Sophists and Thucydides; in the moral philosophies of Kant and Schopenhauer, which are the central foci of Nietzsche's critique of morality; and in the German Materialist movement of the 1850s and after, which shaped Nietzsche's conception of persons. The edition is completed by a chronology, notes and a guide to further reading.