A critical introduction and guide to one of the most clearly developed statements of Nietzsche's mature philosophy Beyond Good and Evil (1886) offers an excellent, albeit challenging, introduction to the philosophical concerns of the Nietzsche's post-Zarathustran work. It is also exemplary of Nietzsche's period of greatest clarity and sophistication. Adopting an interpretative approach throughout, Daniel Conway assumes no previous knowledge of the text. He treats it as a coherent, unified and carefully crafted complete text. When read in this way, Beyond Good and Evil 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 while providing a broader context for Nietzsche's arguments and positions. As you progress through the text, you will be rewarded with a more developed reading of the distinctly political agenda that emerges in the second half of Beyond Good and Evil.

About the Author
Daniel Conway is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities 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 University Press, 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 University Press, 1998), S ren 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 University Press, 2015) and Nietzsche and the Antichrist: Religion, Politics and Culture in Late Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2019).

Reviews
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, University of Chicago
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 -- Paul Bishop, University of Glasgow * Filozofia *



Book Information
ISBN 9781474435468
Author Daniel Conway
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press