Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality

On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsches most influential provocative and challenging work of ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays fourteen leading philosophers offer fresh insights into many of the works central questions: How did our dominant values originate and what functions do they really serve? What future does the concept of evil have and can it be revalued? What sorts of virtues and ideals does Nietzsche advocate and are they necessarily incompatible with aspirations to democracy and a free society? What are the nature role and scope of genealogy in his critique of morality and why doesnt his own evaluative standard receive a genealogical critique? Taken together this superb collection illuminates what a post-Christian and indeed post-moral life might look like and asks to what extent Nietzsches Genealogy manages to move beyond morality.