Dalal www Nietzschels fourth book, written in his so-called positivist period and before the development of his doctrines of perspectivism and the superman Employing the aphististu style that allowed tot thought as flexibility and directness, the writing is characteristically invigorating, acute and paradoxwal. It diaplays his clear confidence in the power of reason, and Nietzsche's foremost concern in this book is to unmask the fictions and delusions of European values above all of European morality. The unbhnking challenges and sulitle diagnoses presented here of its ingrained pressuppositions and beliels inspired and anticipated the most adventurou thought of this century, from Freud to Foucault. They are, as Nietzsche says, the researches of an underground man This entirely new translation is the only modern one available. With the introduction by Michael Tanner, it will enable this masterpiece to be fully and properly appreciated in the English- speaking world