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Books like On the Genealogy of Morality
The best books like On the Genealogy of Morality are Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche is about morality, resentment, guilt. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Beyond Good and Evil
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Friedrich Nietzsche · Philosophy
Beyond Good and Evil is Nietzsche's assault on the philosophical tradition he had been trained in and had grown to distrust.
Shares morality and power with On the Genealogy of Morality.
Read the summary → - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Friedrich Nietzsche · Philosophy
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche's most ambitious and peculiar work — part philosophical treatise, part prose poem, styled deliberately after the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt · Psychology
The Righteous Mind is Jonathan Haidt's argument that moral reasoning is not the source of our moral judgments — it's the press secretary for them.
A kindred philosophy read.
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- Existentialism Is a Humanism
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Jean-Paul Sartre · Philosophy
Existentialism Is a Humanism began as a 1945 lecture Sartre gave to a packed Paris hall in response to critics who called existentialism pessimistic, quietist, and dangerous.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson · Memoir
Isabel Wilkerson's second book proposes a reframing of American racial hierarchy: rather than thinking of racism primarily as prejudice, she argues that the United States has operated as a caste society, with Black Americans at the bottom of a rigidly maintained hierarchy similar in its structure — though different in its specific mechanisms — to the caste systems of India and Nazi Germany.
Shares history and power with On the Genealogy of Morality.
Read the summary → - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
Shares history and power with On the Genealogy of Morality.
Read the summary → - The Lessons of History
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Will & Ariel Durant · History
The Lessons of History is the Durants' distillation of their eleven-volume The Story of Civilization — a project that consumed forty years — into a slim, hundred-page essay.
Shares morality and power with On the Genealogy of Morality.
Read the summary → - Letter to a Christian Nation
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Sam Harris · Philosophy
Letter to a Christian Nation is a short, blunt book written in direct address to American Christians.
Both dig into morality.
Read the summary → - The Prince
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Niccolò Machiavelli · Philosophy
The Prince is Machiavelli's short treatise on how to acquire, hold, and exercise political power.
Both dig into power.
Read the summary → - Twilight of the Idols
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Friedrich Nietzsche · Philosophy
Twilight of the Idols, written by Nietzsche in just a few weeks in 1888 and published the following year, is one of his most concentrated and accessible works.
Both dig into morality.
Read the summary → - A People's History of the United States
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn · History
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, first published in 1980, retells American history from the perspective of those who rarely appear in conventional textbooks: Native Americans, enslaved people, industrial workers, women, immigrants, and dissidents of various kinds.
Both dig into power.
Read the summary → - Annals of Imperial Rome
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Tacitus · History
Tacitus wrote the Annals in the early second century CE as a history of Rome from the death of Augustus to the death of Nero — the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero, covering roughly 14 to 68 CE.
Both dig into power.
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Books like On the Genealogy of Morality: quick answers
What are the best books like On the Genealogy of Morality?
The best books like On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche are Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt, Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with On the Genealogy of Morality, such as morality, resentment, guilt.
What should I read after On the Genealogy of Morality?
A natural next read after On the Genealogy of Morality is Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche. Shares morality and power with On the Genealogy of Morality. Other strong choices are Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt, Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre.
What books are similar to On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche?
On the Genealogy of Morality centers on morality, resentment, guilt. Books with a similar feel include Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt, Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
