On the Genealogy of Morality (Hackett Signature Edition)

HACKETT SIGNATURE EDITION: Philosopher and Nietzsche scholar, Maudemarie Clark, and Germanist Alan J. Swensen's acclaimed translation of Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality is now available in a new premium hardcover edition as part of Hackett Publishing's Signature Editions collection. The new hardcover includes the original translation, preface, endnotes, and Introduction by Maudemarie Clark. 

The Signature Edition features: 

• Smyth sewn bindings
• Hardcovers wrapped in FSC-certified material with linen-like embossing that mimics cloth
• Stamping on the front cover and spines in pigment foil color-matched to the endsheets
• A black satin ribbon marker
• Acid-free 50# cream-colored paper

Reviews:

"Hackett’s On the Genealogy of Morality (we now have even the correct title!) may very well change the entire climate for reading Nietzsche in English—especially if read in conjunction with their equally splendid Twilight of the Idols. . . . Competing translations of Nietzsche’s late, utterly influential masterpieces have often made them a chore, rather than a delight, to read; and their introductions generally obscure, rather than illuminate, the texts’ situations. Clark and Swensen (and Polt and Strong) have made the Genealogy and Twilight accessible and exhilarating—while leaving them, as they are, enigmatic and problematic. Finally, readers of Nietzsche in English can—begin!”
—William Arctander O’Brien, University of California, San Diego

“This unique collaboration of an internationally renowned Nietzsche commentator and a scholar of German language and literature has yielded the finest existing edition of Nietzsche’s book in English. The translation itself strikes an intelligent balance between fidelity to the German and readability in English. It is especially welcome for bringing an historically and philosophically sensitive appreciation of Nietzsche to bear on translation issues. (The decision to translate Mitleid consistently as ‘compassion,’ instead of ‘pity’—thus emphasizing for the English-language reader Nietzsche’s opposition to Schopenhauer’s moral philosophy—is but one of many examples.) The Introduction is the most philosophically substantial guide to the Genealogy in any edition, and will be of value to both student and specialist. Most remarkable of all are the notes on the text: the wealth of biographical, historical, philosophical, and literary detail makes the volume the most informative and reader-friendly edition of Nietzsche’s work to date. The notes will also prove fascinating for the scholar, as the editors have tracked down the numerous contemporary scholarly sources on which Nietzsche relied in writing the Genealogy.”
—Brian Leiter, Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School

About the Author:

Maudemarie Clark is Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, University of California, Riverside.

Alan J. Swensen is Associate Professor of German, Emeritus, Colgate University.