On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

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On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

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Two Nietzsche Works, One Volume

This Vintage edition pairs two of Nietzsche's most important late works in Walter Kaufmann's authoritative English translations. On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is Nietzsche's most systematic book, a three-essay investigation into the origins of moral concepts. Ecce Homo (1888) is the intellectual autobiography he wrote three months before his final collapse. Together, they give you the philosopher at his most rigorous and his most personal.

The Genealogy

The first essay traces the origin of "good and evil" to the resentment of the weak against the strong. The second asks where guilt and bad conscience come from, locating their roots in debt, punishment, and the internalization of cruelty. The third examines the ascetic ideal and asks what it means that priests, philosophers, and artists have all found meaning in self-denial. This is where Nietzsche's critique of morality reaches its fullest development. Most graduate seminars on Nietzsche begin here.

Ecce Homo

Written in late 1888, Ecce Homo is Nietzsche's review of his own life and works. Chapter titles like "Why I Am So Wise" and "Why I Write Such Good Books" sound like megalomania, and they partly are, but the book also contains Nietzsche's clearest statements about what he was trying to accomplish. Kaufmann's notes are indispensable for placing the text in biographical context.