Berry Don - An Analysis Of Friedrich Nietzsche's On The Genealogy Of Morality - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality is a sustained feat of incisive interpretation. Well known as one of Nietzsche's greatest works and as one of the most important books of nineteenth - century philosophy On the Genealogy of Morality also provided the inspiration for the methodologies of several key philosophers of the modern age. Michel Foucault and Judith Butler among others cite Nietzsche as an influence specifically because of the interpretative techniques laid out in this work techniques which are a model for the ways in which interpretation can be used to power critical thinking of the highest order. The key aspects of interpretation are understanding clarifying and questioning definitions; what Nietzsche brings to the process is a sense of how important context history and culture are to understanding any term. In the case of morals for instance he argues that if we are to truly understand what we mean by good or evil we cannot ever assume the two concepts have a stable meaning outside of a given moment in history. Indeed to understand what they mean now and might mean in the future we need to trace the genealogy of concepts back to their very roots a feat of interpretation that Nietzsche undertakes masterfully.
Title: An Analysis Of Friedrich Nietzsche's On The Genealogy Of Morality
Author(s): Berry Don
Publisher: Macat International Limited
Barcode: 9781912127191
Pages: 112 Pages
Publication Date: 7/4/2017
Series: The Macat Library
Category: Political Science & Theory