Nietzsche: Daybreak by Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark,... - 9780521590501

Nietzsche: DaybreakThoughts on the Prejudices of Morality\nAuthor(s): Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521590501, 978-0521590501\nSynopsis\nDaybreak marks the arrival of Nietzsche's 'mature' philosophy and is indispensable for an understanding of his critique of morality and 'revaluation of all values'. This volume presents the distinguished translation by R. J. Hollingdale, with a new introduction that argues for a dramatic change in Nietzsche's views from Human, All Too Human to Daybreak, and shows how this change, in turn, presages the main themes of Nietzsche's later and better-known works such as On the Genealogy of Morality. The main themes of Daybreak are located in their intellectual and philosophical contexts: in Nietzsche's training as a classical philologist and his fascination with the Sophists and Thucydides; in the moral philosop.