The Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer (Penguin Classics)

ISBN: 0140445145

Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich

Condition: New

'One must be superior to mankind in force, in loftiness of soul-in contemptIn these two devastating works, Nietzsche offers a sustained and often vitriolic attack on the morality and the beliefs of his time, in particular those of Hegel, Kant and Schopenhaur. Twilight of the Idols is a grand declaration of war on reason, psychology and theology that combines highly charged personal attacks on his contemporaries with a lightning tour of his own philosophy. It also paves the way for The Anti-Christ, Nietzches final assault on institutional Christianity, in which he identifies himself with the Dionysian artist and confronts Christ; the only opponent he feels worthy of him.In his introduction Michael Tanner discussed the themes of Nietzches argument and places the works in their historical and philosophical context.