Nietzsche: Daybreak : Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

Daybreak marks the arrival of Nietzsche s mature philosophy and is indispensable for an understanding of his critique of morality and revaluation of all values .

This volume presents the distinguished translation by R.

J. Hollingdale, with a new introduction that argues for a dramatic change in Nietzsche s views from Human, All Too Human to Daybreak, and shows how this change, in turn, presages the main themes of Nietzsche s later and better-known works such as On the Genealogy of Morality.

The main themes of Daybreak are located in their intellectual and philosophical contexts: in Nietzsche s training as a classical philologist and his fascination with the Sophists and Thucydides; in the moral philosophies of Kant and Schopenhauer, which are the central foci of Nietzsche s critique of morality; and in the German Materialist movement of the 1850s and after, which shaped Nietzsche s conception of persons.

The edition is completed by a chronology, notes and a guide to further reading.