Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond good and evil: prelude to a Philosophy of the Future is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886. The work moves into the realm "beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual.

In beyond good and evil, nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accuses them of founding grand metaphysical systems upon the faith that the good man is the opposite of the evil man, rather than just a different expression of the same basic impulses that find more direct expression in the evil man.

It draws on and expands the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but with a more critical and polemical approach.

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The Genealogy of Morals Dover Thrift Editions

The next essay, looking into the origins of guilt and punishment, shows how the concept of justice was born — and how internalization of this concept led to the development of what people called "the soul. In the third essay, Nietzsche dissects the meaning of ascetic ideals. It is not nietzsche's intention to reject ascetic ideals, "slave" morality, rather than being eternal verities, or internalized values out of hand; his main concern is to show that culture and morality, are human-made.

Written in response to a book on the origins of morality by his erstwhile friend Paul Rée, the three essays comprising The Genealogy of Morals — all three advancing the critique of Christian morality set forth in Beyond Good and Evil — are among Nietzsche's most sustained and cohesive work. In the first essay — starting from a linguistic analysis of words such as "good, " "bad, " and "evil" — Nietzsche sets up a contrast between what he calls "master" morality and "slave" morality and shows how strength and action have often been replaced by passivity and nihilism.

Dover Publications. Whether or not you agree with all of his conclusions, his writing is of such clarity and brilliance that you will find reading The Genealogy of Morals nothing short of exhilarating.


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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One Penguin Classics

With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. It describes how the ancient persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor.

. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Friedrich nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, brilliantly original and enormously influentialNietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, misrepresented, misquoted, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work.

Dover Publications. With blazing intensity and poetic brilliance, but in an all-powerful life force: passionate, Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religious pieties or meek submission to authority, chaotic and free. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.

Nietzsche's utterance 'god is dead', his insistence that the meaning of life is to be found in purely human terms, and his doctrine of the Superman and the will to power were all later seized upon and unrecognisably twisted by, among others, Nazi intellectuals.


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Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Additionally, jung looks at the differences between his theories and those of Sigmund Freud, providing a valuable basis for anyone interested in the fundamentals of psychoanalysis. In this book, the primitive unconscious, Jung examines some of the most contested and crucial areas in the field of analytical psychology, including dream analysis, and the relationship between psychology and religion.

A provocative and enlightening look at spiritual unease and its contribution to the void in modern civilization  Considered by many to be one of the most important books in the field of psychology, Modern Man in Search of a Soul is a comprehensive introduction to the thought of Carl Gustav Jung. Dover Publications.

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Dover Publications. First published between 1883 and 1891, this philosophical novel is written in a distinct and original style which combines dialogue with verse. This edition of thus spoke zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche boasts an authoritative English translation, allowing the reader strong comprehension of the text.

It established nietzsche as a bold and original thinker; a reputation that would only be enhanced by later works such as Beyond Good and Evil. Thus spoke zarathustra has several recurring themes, placing the main character - the creator of one of the first monotheistic faiths - in a story which deals with ideas such as the "eternal recurrence of the same", the parable on the "death of God", and the "prophecy" of the Übermensch.

This combination proved potent in philosophic circles, with the text passionately discussed in academic circles to this day. As well as its digestible translation, elizabeth Forster-Nietzsche, the book also contains an introduction by the sister of Friedrich Nietzsche, explaining her sibling's convictions and motivations behind authoring this philosophic book.

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The Will to Power Penguin Classics

New to penguin classics,  the will to Power contains some of Nietzsche's most fascinating and combative writings on nihilism, metaphysics and the future of Europe. Dover Publications. The will to Power. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.

Covering topics such as nihilism, and the famous “will to power, morality, Christianity, ” the book was controversially presented as Nietzsche’s all-but-completed magnum opus containing his philosophical system. Assembled by nietzsche’s sister after his death, The Will to Power is a collection of the philosopher’s reflections and theories taken from his unpublished notebooks.

With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Including some of his most interesting metaphysical and epistemological thoughts, as well as some of his most disturbing ethical and political comments, the book would prove to have a significant influence on Nietzsche’s contentious reception in the twentieth century.


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Crime and Punishment

Infused with forceful religious, and philosophical elements, social, the novel was an immediate success. His wife and brother had died; the magazine he and his brother had started, Epoch, collapsed under its load of debt; and he was threatened with debtor's prison. The will to Power. This extraordinary, unforgettable work is reprinted here in the authoritative Constance Garnett translation.

A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. With an advance that he managed to wangle for an unwritten novel, he fled to Wiesbaden, hoping to win enough at the roulette table to get himself out of debt. Crime and Punishment. There he realizes that happiness and redemption can only be achieved through suffering.

The two years before he wrote Crime and Punishment 1866 had been bad ones for Dostoyevsky. Instead, he lost all his money; he had to pawn his clothes and beg friends for loans to pay his hotel bill and get back to Russia. One of his begging letters went to a magazine editor, asking for an advance on yet another unwritten novel — which he described as Crime and Punishment.

One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, Crime and Punishment catapulted Dostoyevsky to the forefront of Russian writers and into the ranks of the world's greatest novelists. Believing that he is above the law, and convinced that humanitarian ends justify vile means, he brutally murders an old woman — a pawnbroker whom he regards as "stupid, ailing, greedy…good for nothing.

Overwhelmed afterwards by feelings of guilt and terror, Raskolnikov confesses to the crime and goes to prison.


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The Gulag Archipelago Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation P.S.

Harper Perennial. Through truly shakespearean portraits of its victims-this man, that woman, the uprooting or extermination of whole populations, that child-we encounter the secret police operations, the labor camps and prisons, the “welcome” that awaited Russian soldiers who had been German prisoners of war.

And solzhenitsyn’s genius has transmuted this grisly indictment into a literary miracle. Dover Publications. A towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, distilled into one abridged volume authorized by the author. Drawing on his own experiences before, on evidence provided by more than 200 fellow prisoners, and on Soviet archives, during and after his eleven years of incarceration and exile, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression, the state within the state that once ruled all-powerfully with its creation by Lenin in 1918.

Crime and Punishment. Yet we also witness astounding moral courage, the incorruptibility with which the occasional individual or a few scattered groups, all defenseless, endured brutality and degradation. The will to Power. Herewith the unchallenged epic of our era.


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Human, All Too Human

This volume includes his original preface, plus "Of the First and Last Things, " "History of the Moral Feelings, " and "The Religious Life. Dover Publications. Harper Perennial. Nietzsche examines morality, religion, and society with his characteristic wit, perception, government, and unflinching honesty.

The will to Power. Crime and Punishment.


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Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, Maps of Meaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind. Dover Publications. Crime and Punishment. Harper Perennial.

The will to Power. Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, myths, morality, and structure of the world itself? Jordan Peterson offers a provocative new hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, and religious stories have long narrated.

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The Republic Dover Thrift Editions

Dover Publications. It appears here in the fine translation by the English classicist Benjamin Jowett. Contemplates the elements of an ideal state, serving as the forerunner for such other classics of political thought as Cicero's De Republica, St. Augustine's city of God, and Thomas More's Utopia. Written in the form of a dialog in which socrates questions his students and fellow citizens, The Republic concerns itself chiefly with the question, "What is justice?" as well as Plato's theory of ideas and his conception of the philosopher's role in society.

To explore the latter, he invents the allegory of the cave to illustrate his notion that ordinary men are like prisoners in a cave, while philosophers are those who venture outside the cave and see things as they really are, observing only the shadows of things, and whose task it is to return to the cave and tell the truth about what they have seen.

Crime and Punishment. The will to Power. Harper Perennial. Often ranked as the greatest of Plato's many remarkable writings, this celebrated philosophical work of the fourth century B. C. This dynamic metaphor expresses at once the eternal conflict between the world of the senses the cave and the world of ideas the world outside the cave, and the philosopher's role as mediator between the two.

High school and college students, as well as lovers of classical literature and philosophy, will welcome this handsome and inexpensive edition of an immortal work.


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