by Friedrich Nietzsche · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429739145
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«La genealogia de la moral» is the philosophical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche published by Edicions 62 in paperback (240 pages, in Catalan).
Nietzsche analyses the origin and evolution of the concepts of «good» and «evil» and subjects inherited Western morality to critique. He questions traditional notions of virtue, guilt and conscience, and proposes a new reading of human nature linked to the will to power. A controversial text that invites a re-examination of moral prejudices assumed to be natural.
1995 edition in Catalan, part of the El Cangur Clàssic collection, with a translation by Joan Leita Graell. The German original was published in 1887 as «Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift».
For readers of philosophy and Western thought, especially those wishing to approach Nietzsche in Catalan.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879. He afterward lived as an independent writer, spending much of his life in relative solitude and financial insecurity while moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France in search of climates that might alleviate his condition, and in the following decade, he completed much of his core writing. In 1889, aged 44, he suffered a neurological collapse, and thereafter a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia; he lived out his remaining 11 years, first under the care of his mother, and later his sister, until his death. His works and his philosophy have fostered not only extensive scholarship but also much popular interest.
