by Friedrich Nietzsche · Tecnos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788430939541
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«La genealogía de la moral» is the philosophical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche, published by Tecnos in paperback (232 pages, in Spanish).
Nietzsche applies his genealogical method to morality to trace the origin of values and detect the vital tendencies that sustain them. He criticises two millennia of Christianity, dualist metaphysics and instrumental science, and argues that this tradition has inverted the notions of good and evil in favour of weak spirits.
Part of the Los esenciales de la Filosofía collection; edited by Diego Sánchez Meca and translated by José Luis López y López de Lizaga. Originally published in 1887 as «Zur Genealogie der Moral».
For philosophy readers interested in Nietzsche's critique of Western morality and the history of values.
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.
