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NIETZSCHESBEYOND GOOD AND EVIL

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NIETZSCHESBEYOND
GOOD AND EVIL

A Readers Guide

CHRISTA DAVIS ACAMPORA
AND
KEITH ANSELL PEARSON

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors wish to thank their respective institutions for support and study leave, including Hunter College of The City University of New York and Warwick University. Acampora also wishes to thank the Institute for Advanced Study at Durham University and Warwick University, which provided support while she was writing portions of the manuscript, and colleagues and students who provided insightful and critical feedback, especially Gary Shapiro, David Cerequas, Adam Israel, Greg Zucker, Ben Abelson, Adele Sarli, Elvira Basevich, Jennifer Hyman and Frank Boardman. Greg Zucker also assisted with the index. The Hunter College philosophy department provided generous support for research assistance and manuscript preparation. For support and inspiration Ansell Pearson wishes to thank his many friends in the world of Nietzsche studies.

TRANSLATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS FOR CITATIONS OF NIETZSCHES WORKS

Translations used in citations of Nietzsches works are as follows. Titles are abbreviated using the following conventions:

A = Der Antichrist (1888); translated as The Antichrist. Trans. Judith Norman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

AOM = Vermischte Meinungen und Sprche (1879); translated as Aphorisms, Opinions and Maxims. In Human All Too Human, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).

BGE = Jenseits von Gut und Bse (1886); translated as Beyond Good and Evil. Trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage Books, 1966).

BT = Die Geburt der Tragdie (1872; 1886); translated as The Birth of Tragedy. Trans. Walter Kaufmann in The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner (New York: Vintage Books, 1967).

CW = Der Fall Wagner (1888); translated as The Case of Wagner. Trans. Walter Kaufmann in The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner (New York: Vintage Books, 1967).

D = Morgenrthe (1881; 1886); translated as Dawn or Daybreak. Trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (Cambridge University Press, 1982).

DD = Dionysos-Dithyramben (1888); translated as Dionysian Dithyrambs. Trans. R. J. Hollingdale (London: Anvil Press Poetry, 1984).

EH = Ecce Homo (1888); translated as Ecce Homo. Trans. Walter Kaufmann in On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo (New York: Random House, 1967). References to EH include the abbreviated chapter title followed by the relevant section number when applicable.

GM = Zur Genealogie der Moral (1887); translated as On the Genealogy of Morality and On the Genealogy of Morals. Trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale in On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo