Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy, Janaway, Christopher, Very G

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Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy [Hardcover] Janaway, Christopher\n\nProduct Overview\nChristopher Janaway presents a full commentary on Nietzsche's most studied\nwork, On the Genealogy of Morality, and combines close reading of key passages\nwith an overview of Nietzsche's wider aims. Arguing that Nietzsche's goal is\nto pursue psychological and historical truths concerning the origins of modern\nmoral values, Beyond Selflessness differs from other books on Nietzsche in\nthat it emphasizes the significance of his rhetorical methods as an instrument\nof persuasion. Nietzsche's outlook is broadly naturalist, but he is critical\nof typical scientific and philosophical methods for their advocacy of\nimpersonality and suppression of the affects. In contrast to his opponents,\nSchopenhauer and Paul Ree, who both account for morality in terms of\nselflessness, Nietzsche believes that our allegiance to a post-Christian\nmorality that centres around selflessness, compassion-