Beyond Good and Evil (Collins Classics)

Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Saxony in 1844. He renounced his Prussian citizenship at a young age and lived most of his life stateless. Aged twenty four, he became a Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel – before he had even completed his doctorate. He is well known for his influence on Nihilism after his famous statement that, ‘God is dead.’ Core tenets of his thought include the idea of the “will to power” and criticism of objective truth. His health was poor throughout his life, he was addicted to opium and suffered a mental breakdown at the end of his life. He died in 1900. He had an enormous impact on the writing and thought of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His ideas inspiring modern philosophy, art, poetry, politics and literature.