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| Title | : | Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ |
| Author | : | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 208 pages |
| Published | : | January 25th 1990 by Penguin Classics (first published 1889) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Nonfiction. Classics. Religion. European Literature. German Literature. Literature. 19th Century. History |
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In 1888, the last sane year of his life Nietsche produced these two brief but devastating books.Twilight of the Idols, 'a grand declaration of war' on all the prevalent ideas of his time, offers a lightning tour of his whole philosophy. It also prepares the way for The Anti-Christ, a final assault on institutional Christianity. Yet although Nietzsche makes a compelling case for the 'Dionysian' artist and celebrates magnificently two of his great heroes, Goethe and Cesare Borgia, he also gives a moving, almost ecstatic portrait of his only worthy opponent: Christ. Both works show Nietsche lashing out at self-deception, astounded at how often morality is based on vengefulness and resentment. Both combine utterly unfair attacks on individuals with amazingly acute surveys of the whole contemporary cultural scene. Both reveal a profound understanding of human mean-spiritedness which still cannot destroy the underlying optimism of Nietzsche, the supreme affirmer among the great philosophers.
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| Original Title: | Götzen-Dämmerung, oder, Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert |
| ISBN: | 0140445145 (ISBN13: 9780140445145) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Twilight of the Idols is one of my favorite books of all time. My favorite quote from the book is, "To attack the passions at their roots means to attack life at its roots." Nietzsche is, as has often been said, religion for philosophers. This book is about the meaning of life, mostly, and how we should conduct ourselves in light of that meaning, or lack thereof. At the time, I was coming from a Judeo-Christian background, though I wasn't a Christian any longer, and it really opened my eyes toLate Nietzsche is amazing. Finally freed from the constraints of even remotely making sense or forming coherent arguments, Nietzsche invites his readers to make up more or less anything and attribute it to these books. The best part is that, if one were inclined to feel guilty about such loose attributions, by this point in his corpus Nietzsche has already gotten you over any such compunctions.
Nietzsche was an angry man. Wow.That's all I've got. I'm completely taken aback by this read.
On Twilight of the IdolsThis book is more systematic and also more consistent than most of Nietzsche's other works. The currents of thought that ran through his writing, varying restlessly for a satisfying expression, came to a pause in this volume. Therefore, it serves as a "snapshot" of Nietzsche's mature thinking.The first thing to note is about the subtitle. One should not under the "hammer", as popular interpretations tend to do, to be a symbol of smashing, dismantling, nullifying. In the
I've read a lot of different books in my lifetime. Greek tragedies, Shakespearean plays, Modern Sci-Fi, Even Tolstoy, But none of them were full of hate. Nietzsche may have had a difficult life because of his illness. He may even have been an incredibly intelligent man. A Genius even. But he was also an ass. And I mean a Huge ass. He spews hate. I think he revels in it. He also is an ego maniac. I knew going into this book that the man had an inflated ego and was strongly anti-christian. But he
Twilight of the Idols : 5 starsThe Anti-Christ : 3 starsWittgenstein once said, A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. Incisive, provoking and hilarious, Twilight of the Idols is perhaps the closest a book has ever gotten to that.
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