Ruth Abbey is a Professor in the Department of Social Sciences, Swinburne University, Australia. She is the author of Nietzsche's Middle Period (OUP, 2000), Charles Taylor (Princeton University Press, 2000) and The Return of Feminist Liberalism (McGill-Queens University Press, 2011). She is the editor of Contemporary Philosophy in Focus: Charles Taylor (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Feminist Interpretations of Rawls (Penn State University Press, 2013).

Introduction; 1. Of First and Last Things; 2. On the History of the Moral Sensations; 3. The Religious Life; 4. From the Souls of Artists and Writers; 5. Signs of Higher and Lower Culture; 6. The Human in Society; 7. Woman and Child; 8. A Glance at the State; 9. Conclusion to HAH: Alone With Oneself; 10. Mixed Opinions and Maxims; 11. The Wanderer and His Shadow.

A guide to one of Nietzsche's earlier and lesser known texts This is the first comprehensive study of Human, All Too Human. This important book, which is Nietzsche's longest, has received little scholarly attention. It initiates some important features that become permanent in his work, such as his experiments in a diversity of writing styles within a single work, his self-representation as a psychologist, his genealogical excavations of morality and his appeal to fellow Europeans to overcome the parochialism and antagonism of nationalism. Requiring no prior knowledge of Nietzsche or his text, Ruth Abbey maps her chapters onto those of Nietzsche's text and includes a separate chapter to cover the essays Assorted Opinions and Maxims and The Wanderer and Its Shadow, which were originally published as separate works. Ruth Abbey is Professor in the Department of Social Sciences, Swinburne University, Australia.