'Reason, seriousness, mastery over the emotions, the whole murky affair which goes by the name of thought, all the privileges and showpieces of man: what a high price has been paid for them! How much blood and horror is at the bottom of all good things! ' On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history ..

The focus of the book is the application of ethics to difficult and controversial social questions.

This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity.

Like all good medieval coaching inns, the Green Man boasts a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill. Led by curiosity, the landlord, Maurice Allington, uncovers the key to Underhill's satanic secrets. But the skeletons in the cupboard of Allington's own domestic affairs are rattling to get out too.

A brilliant account of the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Popper also explains some of the central ideas in his work, making this ideal reading for anyone coming to his life and work for the first time.