Description:
Aaron Ridley explores Nietzsche's mature ethical thought as expressed in his masterpiece, arranging his book thematically around the six characters who loom largest in that work--slave, priest, philosopher, artist, scientist, and noble.
Brief description: Aaron Ridley is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Associate Director of the Centre for Post-Analytic Philosophy at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. His books include Music, Value and the Passions and Nietzsche's Genealogy from Cornell.
Review Quotes:
It is rare these days to come across a first-rate book purportedly on Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy, of which the first and foremost concern turns out to indeed be the philosophy of Nietzsche.
-- "Philosophy in Review"