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

ISBN-13:	9780140445145
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/15/1990
Series:	Penguin Classics Series
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	100,991
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.54(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

'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, 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.