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Brian Leiter

American philosopher and legal scholar; Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago and director of its Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values; writes on Nietzsche and runs the blog Leiter Reports.

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Beyond Good and EvilBook Friedrich Nietzsche

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The primary texts are certainly more fun and if you were to start with one of them, then Beyond Good and Evil would be a great choice, because it covers all the distinctive and important Nietzschean themes and as it’s broken into bite-size pieces you don’t get overwhelmed.

Five Books interview: the best books on The Best Nietzsche Books

2011-09-08·fivebooks.com ↗

On the Genealogy of MoralityBook Friedrich Nietzsche

recommended

I range fairly widely over Nietzsche’s mature works, but besides the two crucial books recommended in the earlier interview—Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morality—I think two other works are quite important for understanding his moral psychology: Daybreak, his first mature work of 1881, and Twilight of the Idols, one of his last works in 1888.

Five Books interview: the best books on The Best Nietzsche Books

2011-09-08·fivebooks.com ↗

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