Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)

from pingdjip

Some of my colleagues are infatuated with Nietzsche, and judging by this book it's easy to understand why. In places it sounds considerably poststructural (I work in a literature department). It's about complexity ("our body is, after all, only a society constructed out of many souls", section 19...

from Jane.Elinor

(Disclaimer: I'm definitely not qualified to write this review.) When I started secondary school, in our first history classes, every so often it would be mentioned that such and such a historical figure was racist, or sexist, or what have you. For a bunch of 12 year old girls, this was pretty sh...

from Clancy.Coonradt

Such a wonderful book. Truly one that I find hard to put down. This is my night reader during a History MA, and it certainly keeps my mind busy and not worrying on about the day and its endless problems. The way Penguin have re-published the book is beautiful, and it really adds to the impact of ...

from pickwick817

I began this book with the hope that Nietsche would better explain some of my own theories on morality and its function in society. I did not quite find what I was looking for. I now realize that my hope was terribly naive. In addition to my dissapointment on that front, I found a few others. Nie...

from GyanaDass

So I think this books is pretty okay. I first thought it was pretty lousy, but then when he mentioned the part about the funky chicken dance - it all turned around and I began to really love it. He kind of messed up towards the end when he said that all the chicken really does is flap its wings a...