Product Description

When Nictzsche published Beyond Good and Evil in 1886, he told a friend that it was a book that would not be read properly until "around the year 2000". Now Laurence Lampert sets out to fulfill this prophecy by providing a section by section interpretation of this philosophical masterpiece that emphasises its unity and depth as a comprehensive new doctrine on nature and humanity. According to Lampert, Nietzsche begins with a critique of philosophy that is ultimately affirmative, because it shows how philosophy can arrive at a defensible ontological account of the way of all beings. Nietzsche next argues that a new post-Christian religion can arise out of the affirmation of the world disclosed to philosophy. Then, turning to the implications of the new ontology for morality and politics, Nietzsche argues that these can be reconstituted on the fundamental insights of the new philosophy. Nietzsche's comprehensive depiction of this anti-Platonic philosophy ends with a chapter on nobility, in which he contends that what can now be publicly celebrated as noble in our species are its highest achievements of mind and spirit.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3097261 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Review
"A masterpiece of insightful commentary and a brilliant interpretation of one of Nietzsche's richest - and most poorly understood - books." Graham Parkes, University of Hawaii

About the Author
Laurence Lampert, professor of philosophy at Indiana University, Indianapolis, is also the author of Nietzsche's Teaching (ISBN 0 300 04430 5, pb. 13.95) and Nietzsche and Modern Times (ISBN 0 300 06510 8, pb. 13.95), both published by Yale University Press, as well as Leo Strauss and Nietzsche.