The Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ: Or How to Philosophize with a Hammer

By Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

2021-05-28 11:19:19

''One must be superior to mankind in force, in loftiness of soul—in contempt’In 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... Read more
Nietzsche criticizes German culture of the day as unsophisticated, decadent and nihilistic, and shoots some disapproving arrows at key French, British, and Italian cultural figures who represent similar tendencies. In contrast to all these alleged representatives of cultural "decadence", Nietzsche applauds Caesar, Napoleon, Goethe, Thucydides, and the Sophists as healthier and stronger types. The book states the transvaluation of all values as Nietzsche's final and most important project and gives a view of antiquity wherein the Romans for once take precedence over the ancient Greeks, albeit only in the field of literature. Less

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File size256776
Print pages208
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date June 1, 1997
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780140445145
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and a Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound ...

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