Genre: | Philosophy |
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Language : | English |
Published: | February 15, 1990 |
Edition: | 7th |
Paperback | |
ISBN13: | 9780140445145 |
ISBN10: | 0140445145 |
Pages: | 208 |
Dimensions: | 5.07 x 7.75 x 0.52 inches |
Weight: | 167.26 g |
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, 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, Nietzche’s 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 Nietzche’s argument and places the works in their historical and philosophical context.