Dawn is the most recent volume to appear in the first complete,
critical, and annotated English edition of all of Nietzsche's work. The
edition, organized originally by Ernst Behler and Bernd Magnus, is a
translation of the celebrated Kritische Studienausgabe in 15 Bänden
(1980) edited by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari. The book is the
first to appear under the editorial direction of Alan D. Schrift, Keith
Ansell-Pearson, and Duncan Large, and to incorporate subsequent
corrections to the 1980 edition.
Continuing the positivistic turn of Human, All Too Human, Dawn is
the second installment in the free spirit trilogy that culminated in
The Joyful Science. One of Nietzsche's "yes-saying" books, it marks
his first significant confrontation with morality and offers glimpses of
many of the signature themes in his mature works. Dawn has come to be
admired in recent years for its ethical naturalism, psychological
observations, and therapeutic insights. Presented in Nietzsche's
aphoristic style, it is a text with hidden riches, one that must be read
between the lines and one that the discerning reader will admire and
cherish.