The Dawn of Day
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| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| Original title | Morgenröthe a |
| Language | German |
Publication date | 1881 |
| Publication place | Germany |
| Preceded by | Human, All Too Human (1878) |
| Followed by | Idylls from Messina (1882) |
| a Morgenröte in Modern German. | |
The Dawn of Day or Dawn or Daybreak (German: Morgenröte – Gedanken über die moralischen Vorurteile; historical orthography: Morgenröthe – Gedanken über die moralischen Vorurtheile; English: The Dawn of Day/ Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality) is an 1881 book by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. According to the Nietzsche scholar Keith Ansell-Pearson, it is the least studied of all of Nietzsche's works. This relative obscurity is mostly due to the greater attention paid to his subsequent writings.
In his last original book Ecce Homo, Nietzsche writes that Daybreak was the "book [in which] my campaign against morality begins".