Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality
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Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality by David Owen
A landmark work of western philosophy, On the Genealogy of Morality is a dazzling and brilliantly incisive attack on European morality. Combining philosophical acuity with psychological insight in prose of remarkable rhetorical power, Nietzsche takes up the task of offering us reasons to engage in a re-evaluation of our values. In this book, David Owen offers a reflective and insightful analysis of Nietzsche's text. He provides an account of how Nietzsche comes to the project of the re-evaluation of values; he shows how the development of Nietzsche's understanding of the requirements of this project lead him to acknowledge the need for the kind of investigation of morality that he terms genealogy; he elucidates the general structure and substantive arguments of Nietzsche's text, accounting for the rhetorical form of these arguments, and he debates the character of genealogy (as exemplified by Nietzsche's Genealogy) as a form of critical enquiry. earlier Daybreak (1881) and that in Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche is developing a critique of modes of agency and that this constitutes the most fundamental aspect of his demand for a revaluation of values. The book is a distinctive and significant contribution to our understanding of Nietzsche's great text.
"Written with admirable clarity and precision, and a great deal of philosophical acumen, David Owen's introduction is indispensable for students seeking an understanding of some core aspects of Nietzsche's text and its figuration in recent philosophical debates" - Keith Ansell Pearson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick"
David Owen is Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Southampton.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844651047 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844651045 |
| Title | Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality |
| Author | David Owen |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-06-25 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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