Friedrich Nietzsche

Twilight of the Idols (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"Twilight of the Idols means that the old truth is on its last legs," declared Friedrich Nietzsche in this 1889 polemic. Forceful in his language and profound in his message, the philosopher delivered the nineteenth century's most devastating attack on Christianity. Intended by Nietzsche as a general introduction to his philosophy, it assails the "idols" of Western philosophy and culture, including the concepts of Socratic rationality and Christian morality.
Written while Nietzsche was at the peak of his powers, less than a year before the onset of the insanity that gripped him until his death in 1900, this work's proximity to the end of the author's career renders it a distinctive portrait from his later period. The source of the famous dictum, "Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger," it blazes with provocative, inflammatory rhetoric that challenges readers to reexamine what they worship and why.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780486841632
• Artikelnr.: 57133111

Autorenporträt

German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900) ranks among the most influential of modern thinkers. His explorations of the motives underlying Western philosophy, religion, and morality have exercised a profound effect on generations of writers, theologians, philosophers, and psychologists. Although Nietzsche was strongly opposed to nationalism and anti-Semitism, his works were appropriated by Fascists to support the very concepts he deplored.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Maxims and Barbs
2: The Problem of Socrates
3: "Reason" in Philosophy
4: How the "Real World" Finally Becomes a Fable
5: Morality as Anti-Nature
6: The Four Great Errors
7: The "Improvers " of Humanity
8: What Germans Lack
9: Reconnaissance Raids of an Untimely Man
10: What I Owe the Ancients
11: The Hammer Speaks