This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of Dawn, Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality. Through the critical analysis of numerous prejudices, Nietzsche endeavors above all to map the conceptual area of illusion, imagination and fantasy, religious and ordinary beliefs, superstitions, enthusiasm sometimes amounting to fanaticism. Simonin sets out the mechanisms that explain the formation, structure and dissemination of certain ideas and representations, both at the level of the individual and of human groups. In this in-depth commentary, he shows that Dawn is fundamental to our understanding of the shake-up of our worldview that began at the end of the nineteenth century and is more relevant than ever in the “age of ‘post’-truth”. The book is at once a practical tool, a philosophical essay and a work on the history of ideas, aimed not only at specialists in Nietzsche, but also at all students and curious minds.
