Beyond Good and Evil

<p>Nietzsche's 1886 broadside against philosophy's inherited pieties — truth-seeking, metaphysics, democratic morality. Written in aphorisms and bursts, it's where he names the "free spirit," lays out the will to power as psychology, and sketches the outlines of what he thought would come after the death of God. A harder book than it looks. Every page is a knife; read it twice and you get it.</p>