A Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most important work on morality. A polemical contribution to moral and political theory, it traces the history of concepts such as guilt, responsibility, and justice, offering insight into Nietzsche's assessment of modern times as the epoch of nihilism. This volume contains new translations of the Genealogy and The Greek State and sections from other of Nietzsche's work to which he refers within it (Human All Too Human, Daybreak, The Joyful Science, and Beyond Good and Evil).

尼采，弗裏德裏希·威廉（Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche，一八四四——一九〇〇）是十九世紀末著名的德國哲學傢，他的作品以直搗人性底蘊的氣魄和淋灕酣暢的文風見稱，尤以在美學和道德哲學方麵的著作享譽世界。主要著作有《悲劇的誕生》、《紮拉圖特拉如是說》、《善惡的彼岸》、《論道德的譜係》等。