Beyond Good and Evil Penguin Classics and 10 more items

Virginia Commonwealth University awarded a contract to Amazon.com on August 4, 2026, for the procurement of philosophical and literary texts. The contract, identified as A236_P0346049, carries a cumulative value of $190.00 and comprises eleven line items consisting of individual books to be delivered to VCU Procurement. The materials include works by German philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, as well as selected works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, with titles spanning ethics, metaphysics, and classical literature.

The line items represent single-unit purchases of books in various editions, including titles such as "The Essential Schopenhauer," "Beyond Good and Evil," "On the Genealogy of Morals," and "The World as Will and Representation," with individual unit prices ranging from $11.11 to $31.98. All items are designated for delivery to VCU Procurement in Virginia. The contract award constitutes a modest acquisition of academic and reference materials, consistent with typical institutional purchasing by a higher education institution.