Beyond Good and Evil
A concise entry into Nietzsche's mature critique of morality and philosophy.
Author guide
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher and writer whose critiques of morality, religion, and culture shaped modern thought.
philosophy
Not sure where to begin?
Start with one of these
The Gay Science
An accessible aphoristic work that introduces many of Nietzsche's central themes.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
A famous literary-philosophical work centered on self-overcoming and the death of God.
On the Genealogy of Morals
A core text for Nietzsche's account of morality, guilt, and conscience.
Read in order
Books by series
collection series · complete
Untimely Meditations
Nietzsche's four early essays on culture, history, education, and Wagner.
Outside the series
Standalone and other books
- The Birth of TragedyAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1872
- On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral SenseAmazon ↗
essay · 1873
- Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the GreeksAmazon ↗
essay · 1873
- The Dionysian Vision of the WorldAmazon ↗
essay · 1870
- Anti-EducationAmazon ↗
essay · 1872
- Human, All Too HumanAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1878
- The Wanderer and His ShadowAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1880
- The Dawn of DayAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1881
- The Gay ScienceAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1882
- Thus Spoke ZarathustraAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1883
- Beyond Good and EvilAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1886
- On the Genealogy of MoralsAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1887
- The Case of WagnerAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1888
- Twilight of the IdolsAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1888
- The AntichristAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1888
- Ecce HomoAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1888
- Nietzsche contra WagnerAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1887
- The Will to PowerAmazon ↗
collection · 1901