BASC70354 - Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil

Course Description

Instructor: Clare Pearson. This class will undertake a close readings of Nietzsche’s important and challenging work, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future. Published in 1886, this is a mature work which undertakes to address and pull together all the major issues in Nietzsche’s thought, beginning with his attempt to challenge and rethink the meaning of truth and of thinking itself, and continuing through similar attempts to transform our understanding of the nature of religion, morality, community and national identity. While an easy book to read, because it is written in an aphoristic style, it is not so easy to interpret; this is by design, as Nietzsche himself tells us, and we will also address the issues of the style and structure and their effect on interpretation. Course code: BASC70354 Philosophy

Notes

Please read the Preface and Section 1: "On the Prejudices of the Philosophers" for the first class.