Nietzsche’s ‘Genealogy of Morals’ and His Unfinished Philosophy: New Insights from the Late Notebooks

Through detailed analysis of Nietzsche’s correspondence and late notebooks, Thomas Brobjer uncovers the intricate relationship between Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals and his unfinished Revaluation of All Values. Demonstrating the close links in content between the two works, Brobjer explores how it is in the Genealogy that Nietzsche charts the two-value dichotomy between noble (active) and Christian (passive) values: a dichotomy that was also to constitute the basis of his project of revaluating values.Moreover, unearthing for the first time Nietzsche’s plans for a second volume of the Genealogy and translating many of the notes and plans for this text into English, he reveals how the idea for this second volume eventually merged into the third volume of the Hauptwerk.In doing so, this book bridges the gap between Nietzsche’s published works and his Nachlass in a way that few English-language studies have done.By engaging directly with Nietzsche's late notebooks and other elements of