Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) - Hardcover

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521590507 ISBN 13: 9780521590501

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Daybreak 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 edition is completed by a chronology, notes and a guide to further reading.

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About the Author

Nietzsche has been proclaimed the seminal figure of modern philosophy as well as one of the most creative and critically influential geniuses in the history of secular thought.

Maudemarie Clark is Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Riverside and George Carleton, Jr Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University. She is the author of Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1990), translator and editor (with Alan Swensen) of On the Genealogy of Morality (1998) and editor (with Brian Leiter) of Daybreak (Cambridge University Press, 1982).

Brian Leiter is the Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values at the University of Chicago. He is the author of "Naturalizing Jurisprudence" and "Nietzsche on Morality" and the coeditor of the annual "Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law." He authors the Leiter Reports blog

Desmond Clarke is Professor of Philosophy at University College Cork. He received a DLitt from the National University of Ireland, was Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, and has been elected to the Royal Irish Academy. He is the author of a number of books on Descartes and the seventeenth century, most recently Descartes' Theory of Mind (2005).

Karl Ameriks is McMahon Hank Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. A recipient of fellowships from the Humboldt Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Earheart Foundation, he is the author of several books, including Kant's Theory of Mind and Kant and the Fate of Autonomy, and editor of The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism. He is also co-editor of the series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy.

Language Notes

Text: English, German (translation)

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521590507
• ISBN 13: 9780521590501
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter