The Limit of Metaphor in Nietzsche's "Genealogy of Morals."

The article presents information on the book "Genealogy of Morals," by Friedrich Nietzsche, a renowned philosopher. Nietzsche's "Genealogy of Morals," is a hugely, almost insanely ambitious treatise. It undertakes to explain the origins not only of morals but of society, custom, law, class differenc...

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Publicado en:Nineteenth Century Prose Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 75 - 97
Autor principal: Robertson, Ritchie
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Publicado: Nineteenth Century Prose Spring2005
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