"Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future," first published in 1886, arose from Friedrich Nietzsche's reflections and notes during the composition of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" and marks a new literary-philosophical phase for the author, his phase of negation and demolition of concepts. Nietzsche considered this book, along with "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," his main works, encompassing a greater multiplicity of subjects and reflections. Nietzsche defined this book to his friend Jacob Burckhardt: "I ask you to read this book (although it says the same things as my Zarathustra, but in a different way, very different)..."