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BY FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE. TRANSLATED BY WALTER KAUFMANN and R. J. HOLLINGDALE

On the Genealogy of Morals--Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale, delves into Nietzsche's exploration of the origin and development of moral values in society. In this profound work, Nietzsche challenges traditional beliefs about good and evil, shedding light on the complex interplay between power, culture, and morality. With incisive analysis and provocative insights, Nietzsche's timeless examination offers readers a thought-provoking journey into the fundamental nature of ethics and human behavior. This translation, skillfully rendered by Kaufmann and Hollingdale, captures the essence of Nietzsche's visionary ideas, making this philosophical masterpiece accessible to contemporary audiences seeking to unravel the mysteries of morality and existence.

A Division of Random House. VINTAGE BOOKS. NEW YORK. 1967. 374p.

By Calvin L. Warren

In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. Warren uses the figure of the antebellum free black as a philosophical paradigm for thinking through the tensions between blackness and Being. He illustrates how blacks embody a metaphysical nothing. This nothingness serves as a destabilizing presence and force as well as that which whiteness defines itself against. Thus, the function of blackness as giving form to nothing presents a terrifying problem for whites: they need blacks to affirm their existence, even as they despise the nothingness they represent. By pointing out how all humanism is based on investing blackness with nonbeing—a logic which reproduces antiblack violence and precludes any realization of equality, justice, and recognition for blacks—Warren urges the removal of the human from its metaphysical pedestal and the exploration of ways of existing that are not predicated on a grounding in being.

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 233p.

By Friedrich Nietzsche.

Vilified and adored, the works of Nietzsche wreaked havoc with 20th century philosophers, his then far out ideas used by politicians, tyrants, worshippers of the free, and the like to justify their lofty aims, and for some, their unmitigated adoration of violence. Some how, God was lost, perhaps forever. Or perhaps was transformed into the antichrist.

Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. 1885.