Dawn: Thoughts on the Presumptions of Morality, Volume 5 (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsch)

Brittain Smith Friedrich Nietzsche

ISBN 10: 0804780056 / ISBN 13: 9780804780056

Published by Stanford University Press, 2011

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pp. 456.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dawn: Thoughts on the Presumptions of Morality, Volume 5 (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsch)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804780056
• ISBN 13: 9780804780056
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Dawn is the most recent volume to appear in the first complete, critical, and annotated English edition of all of Nietzsche's work. The edition, organized originally by Ernst Behler and Bernd Magnus, is a translation of the celebrated Kritische Studienausgabe in 15 Bänden (1980) edited by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari. The book is the first to appear under the editorial direction of Alan D. Schrift, Keith Ansell-Pearson, and Duncan Large, and to incorporate subsequent corrections to the 1980 edition.

  Continuing the positivistic turn of Human, All Too Human, Dawn is the second installment in the free spirit trilogy that culminated in The Joyful Science. One of Nietzsche's "yes-saying" books, it marks his first significant confrontation with morality and offers glimpses of many of the signature themes in his mature works. Dawn has come to be admired in recent years for its ethical naturalism, psychological observations, and therapeutic insights. Presented in Nietzsche's aphoristic style, it is a text with hidden riches, one that must be read between the lines and one that the discerning reader will admire and cherish.

About the Author

Brittain Smith is Director of Study Abroad at The College of the Holy Cross.