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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN 0804466076. Trade Paperback. Fourth printing of 1960 original. Previous owner's name on top edge of half-title page. Slight wear to corners and edges; slight rubs and creases to covers; slight browning throughout; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Very Good condition. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This volume by appearance should be part of The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche series as are several other of his books published by The Macmillan Company in 1924 (one of which I have so far listed, two more to come after this). However, despite an identical appearance this book does not have a reference to the series on either the half-title page or title page. You can see the dark green covers in the photos. They are mostly quite clean, one small spot on the front. The gilt lettering on the spine is still nicely bright. There is a little wear at both spine ends (second photo). There's also a light vertical crease on the spine. The cover edges are in very good shape, no rubbing, one teeny dent on the rear middle edge. The page edges are very clean. The book is square and the spine is straight. The binding is very solid from cover to cover. I turned over every page. There are no cracks or spaces between any of the facing pages. The junctures between the front and rear inside covers and their end papers are in excellent condition. The covers are nicely, tightly bound as well. The pages are lightly, but uniformly toned. There is a small, very slight spot on the half-title page where a tiny bit of the paper from the facing page got pulled over, very superficial. There are a few tans spots either off the bottom or middle edge of pages 4-9, nothing reaching the print. After that I didn't see any instances of soiling on the pages. I saw one little nick on one page. There are some of those lightning-like thin creases off a top edge. I didn't see any placeholder creases. There is a very light crease or crinkle above the bottom corner of a group of early pages, not near the print. There are seven instances of a pair of uncut (at the bottom edge) pages. There is one instance of a tear at the middle edge of one of these uncut pages. It does not reach the print. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. 'Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future covers ideas in his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra but with a more polemical approach. It was first published in 1886 under the publishing house C. G. Naumann of Leipzig at the author's own expense and first translated into English by Helen Zimmern, who was two years younger than Nietzsche and knew the author. According to translator Walter Kaufman, the title refers to the need for moral philosophy to go beyond simplistic black and white moralizing, as contained in statements such as 'X is good' or 'X is evil'. At the beginning of the book Nietzsche attacks the very idea of using strictly opposite terms such as 'Good versus Evil'. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accuses them of founding grand metaphysical systems upon the faith that the good man is the opposite of the evil man, rather than just a different expression of the same basic impulses that find more direct expression in the evil man. The work moves into the realm 'beyond good and evil' in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual. The book is well known for the often quoted line: 'He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.' '.