Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil

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 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), 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 University Press, 2015) and Nietzsche and the Antichrist: Religion, Politics and Culture in Late Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2019).

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.

• ChronologyIntroductionThe Title and Subtitle of BGENietzsche’s Aims in BGENietzsche’s Target ReadershipNietzsche’s PrefacePart 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 SciencesReviewPart Two: The Free SpiritPreviewSummary of SectionsThe Self-Overcoming of MoralityReintroducing the Will to PowerTurning to the FutureReviewPart Three: The Religious CharacterPreviewSummary of SectionsDissolving the Paradox of the SaintThe Religious InstinctThe Misanthropic Atheism of Modern PhilosophyThe 'New' PhilosophersThe Calamity of European ChristianityReviewPart Four: Epigrams and InterludesPreviewSummary of SectionsNietzsche’s InfluencesRecurring Themes and Persistent MotifsReviewPart Five: On the Natural History of MoralityPreviewSummary of SectionsThe Imperative of NatureThe Moral NeurosisThe "New" Philosophers: Commanders and LegislatorsReviewPart Six: We ScholarsPreviewSummary of SectionsPhilosophers as LegislatorsScholarly VirtuesWhat A Philosopher Is (and Does)ReviewPart Seven: Our VirtuesPreviewSummary of SectionsRevisiting the VirtuesThe Many Colors of VirtueThe Many Costumes of Virtue'We Immoralists!'A New TaskReviewPart Eight: Peoples and FatherlandsPreviewSummary of SectionsThe German SoulCreating a Home for European JewryHow Europe May Become OneReviewPart Nine: What is Noble?PreviewSummary of SectionsExploiting a "Turning Point in History"Nobility and Self-respectDionysus RevealedReviewFrom Lofty Mountains: AftersongPreviewSummary of Stanzas 1–13Summary of Stanzas 14–15ReviewGlossary of Key TermsGuide to Further Reading on Beyond Good and EvilBibliographyIndex