The primary reading for this seminar will be from Nietzsche's work, On The Genealogy of Morals. This is a relatively short work, but it is one that you will find is quite dense and rich, so you will likely need to go back over what you're reading multiple times. You may want to take notes as you are working through the text's sections.

Nietzsche is not a systematic thinker, and is in fact critical of systematic approaches to philosophy, but if you compare this with his other works, you will find that that the Genealogy is the most systematic of his works (along with the earlier Birth of Tragedy). That doesn't mean that there isn't a complex, structured philosophy worked out in the Genealogy, but rather that Nietzsche leaves it up to us readers to carry out the work of assembling the portions of his thought into a coherent perspective.

You likely will want to read through the Genealogy as a whole before we meet for our 1-day seminar. That might give you some sense of where Nietzsche is going with the work as a whole. You'll also notice how the different sections, and the arguments, distinctions, and ideas worked out in them, intersect with and build upon each other