Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers of the past150yearsandOntheGenealogyof Morality(1887)ishismost importantworkonethicsandpolitics.Apolemicalcontributionto moral and political theory, it offers a critique of moral values and tracesthehistoricalevolutionofconceptssuchasguilt,conscience, responsibility,lawandjustice.Thisisarevisedandupdatededition ofoneofthemostsuccessfulvolumestoappearinCambridgeTexts intheHistoryofPoliticalThought.KeithAnsell-Pearsonhasmod- ifiedhisintroductiontoNietzsche’sclassictext,andCarolDiethe has incorporated a number of changes to the translation itself, reflecting the considerable advances in our understanding of Nietzscheinthetwelveyearssincethiseditionfirstappeared.Inthis new guise, the Cambridge Texts edition of Nietzsche’s Genealogy shouldcontinuetoenjoywidespreadadoption,atbothundergradu- ateandgraduatelevel. CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE On the Genealogy of Morality CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT Series editors Raymond Geuss Reader in Philosophy,University ofCambridge Quentin Skinner Regius Professor ofModern History in the University ofCambridge Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought is now firmly estab- lished as the major student textbook series in political theory.It aimstomake available to students all the most important texts in the historyof western political thought,from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century.All the familiar classic texts will be included,but the seriesseeks at the same time to enlarge the conventional canon by incorporating an extensive range of less well-known works,many ofthemnever before available in a modern English edition.Wherever possible,texts are published in complete and unabridged form,and translations are specially commissioned for the series.Each volume contains a critical introduction together with chronologies, biographical sketches, a guide to further reading and any necessary glossaries and textual apparatus. When completed the series will aim to offer an outlineofthe entire evolution ofwestern political thought. For a list oftitles published in the series,please see end ofbook FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE On the Genealogy of Morality EDITED BY KEITH ANSELL-PEARSON Department ofPhilosophy, University ofWarwick TRANSLATED BY CAROL DIETHE CAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB28RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521871235 © in the translation and editorial matter Cambridge University Press 1994,2007 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. 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Contents Acknowledgements and a note on the text page viii A note on the revised edition ix Introduction:on Nietzsche’s critique of morality xiii Chronology xxx Further reading xxxiii Biographical synopses xxxvii On the Genealogy ofMorality 1 Supplementary material toOn the Genealogy ofMorality 121 ‘The Greek State’ 164 ‘Homer’s Contest’ 174 Index of names 183 Index of subjects 187 vii Acknowledgements and a note on the text Carol Diethe is responsible for the translation ofall the material featured in this book with the exception ofthe supplementary material taken from the Cambridge University Press editions of Human, All too Human (volumes one and two),pp.123–32andDaybreak,pp.133–44,and trans- lated by R.J.Hollingdale. The notes which accompany the text were prepared by Raymond Geuss, who profited from editorial material supplied in the editions of G.Colli and M.Montinari (Berlin/New York,de Gruyter,1967–88) and Peter Putz (Munich,Goldman,1988). The essay ‘The Greek State’was originally intended by Nietzsche to be a chapter of his first published book, The Birth of Tragedy (1872); together with the essay ‘Homer’s Contest’and three other essays – on the topics of truth,the future of education,and Schopenhauer – it formed part ofthe ‘Five prefaces to five unwritten books’Nietzsche presented to Cosima Wagner in the Christmas of 1872.The German text of the two essays, newly translated here, can be found in volume 1 of Nietzsche. Sämtliche Werke:Kritische Studienausgabe(Berlin/New York,de Gruyter, 1988),pp.764–78and pp.783–93. Nietzsche’s own italicization and idiosyncratic punctuation have been retained in the text. viii A note on the revised edition This second,revised edition features a new introduction by the editor and a revised and updated guide to further reading.The translation has been extensively modified in an effort to present the reader with a more accu- rate and reliable text.The editor and translator wish to thank those schol- ars who brought errors in the original translation to their attention and made suggestions for refining the text, in particular Christa Davis Acampora and Duncan Large. Ultimately, we made our own decisions and sole responsibility for the text remains with us.Keith Ansell-Pearson wishes to thank Richard Fisher ofCambridge University Press for sup- porting the idea ofa second,revised edition ofthe text,and Christa Davis Acampora,Carol Diethe and Raymond Geuss for looking over versions ofthe introduction and providing helpful comments.Carol Diethe wishes to thank Jürgen Diethe for his considered comments. Note by the translator:Anyone who has read Nietzsche in the original will be aware ofhis polished style,and will have admired his capacity to leap from one idea to another with finesse,to sprinkle foreign words into his text, to emphasize words with italics, or to coin a string of neologisms while rushing headlong through a paragraph until,finally,he reaches the safe landing ofa full stop.Humbling though the experience often was,I have tried to keep faith with Nietzsche’s punctuation and to capture as much of his style as was possible in translation while still holding on to the demands ofaccuracy.For accuracy in translating Nietzsche is increas- ingly important.When the first edition came out in 1994,I felt I could render a term like ‘blue-eyed’as ‘naïve’,as in the phrase ‘naïvely menda- cious’,which now appears as ‘blue-eyed mendacious’in the text (III,19). ix