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Rex Welshon, Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality: A Guide, Oxford University Press, 2023, 296pp., $30.99 (pbk) ISBN 9780197611821.
Reviewed by Guy Elgat, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Rex Welshon’s book comes at the crest of a wave of publications on Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals, which started, I think it is fair to say, with Brian Leiter’s classic 2002 book, Nietzsche on Morality.
The question then naturally arises regarding the need for yet another book on the subject, and part of the answer, of course, depends on who one considers the proper readership of the book to be. On the back cover, it says that the book ‘introduces readers of all levels to the major arguments found in the Genealogy’, and if one indeed regards the book merely as an introduction, then it succeeds quite nicely, though the question still remains whether earlier guides could not serve the uninitiated reader at least…
