title: Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality: A Critical Guide (Cambridge Critical Guides)
author: Simon May
description: "This is a fine volume with a very impressive range, featuring genuinely new and, in some cases, provocative lines of interpretation. It will make an incisive contribution to discussion of this important text." <br /><b>--Duncan Large, Swansea University</b><br /><br /><br />"This collection is a showcase for some of the best contemporary scholarship on the Genealogy of Morality, and will prove invaluable to both scholars of Nietzsche as well as moral philosophers with an interest in moral psychology. Taken together, these articles make an excellent argument for the vitality, modernity, and urgency of Nietzsche's genealogical challenge to morality.' <br /><b>-Judith Norman, Trinity University</b><br />
zlib_text: The Spectre of Morality
  The Case Against Neo-Puritanism
  
  I have always been a bit suspicious of the idea of morality. 
  Those who know me would be surprised to say the least to learn that 
  I am writing about this subject. I do not believe in morality and never 
  have. More specifically, I do not believe in the particular brand of 
  morality that we hold so dear in the West today. This does not mean 
  that I take issue with the majority of humanity in its desire to do 
  good. I respect the ten commandments, though I remain convinced 
  that their origin far predates Judaism. Now, if I have nothing against 
  the ten commandments, why go after morality, you might wonder.
  In fact, it was my recent discovery of how Nietzsche described 
  consciousness, which he saw as superfluous and superficial, that 
  rekindled my interest in morality. If consciousness is superfluous and 
  superficial, where does that leave its miserable runt morality? I am 
  not a scholar, but a free-thinker, a libertine in the true 