Nietzsche's Task

An Interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil

Laurence Lampert

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Yale University Press
23 March 2004

Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900

When Nietzsche published Beyond Good and Evil in 1886, he told a friend that it was a book that would not be read properly until “around the year 2000.” Now Laurence Lampert sets out to fulfill this prophecy by providing a section by section interpretation of this philosophical masterpiece that emphasizes its unity and depth as a comprehensive new teaching on nature and humanity. According to Lampert, Nietzsche begins with a critique of philosophy that is ultimately affirmative, because it shows how philosophy can arrive at a defensible ontological account of the way of all beings. Nietzsche next argues that a new post-Christian religion can arise out of the affirmation of the world disclosed to philosophy. Then, turning to the implications of the new ontology for morality and politics, Nietzsche argues that these can be reconstituted on the fundamental insights of the new philosophy. Nietzsche’s comprehensive depiction of this anti-Platonic philosophy ends with a chapter on nobility, in which he contends that what can now be publicly celebrated as noble in our species are its highest achievements of mind and spirit.

By: Laurence Lampert
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 490g
ISBN: 9780300103014
ISBN 10: 0300103018
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 23 March 2004
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Laurence Lampert, professor of philosophy at Indiana University, Indianapolis, is also the author of Nietzsche's Teaching and Nietzsche and Modern Times, both published by Yale University Press, and Leo Strauss and Nietzsche.

Reviews for Nietzsche's Task: An Interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil

""An engaging, bold, and insightful book that should stand above much recent Nietzsche scholarship for its attention to Nietzsche's purposes and its care with Nietzsche's text."" Paul Kirkland, Review of Metaphysics""