Friedrich Nietzsche

Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist

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&quote;Books for everybody are always malodorous books: the smell of petty people clings to them,&quote; scoffed Friedrich Nietzsche. These two works, Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist, crowned the radical philosopher's career of writing books that are decidedly not for everyone. Written in 1888, while Nietzsche was at the height of his brilliance — but shortly before the onset of the insanity that gripped him until his death in 1900 — they blaze with provocative, inflammatory rhetoric.Nietzsche's &quote;grand declaration of war,&quote; Twilight of the Idols examines what we worship and why. Intended by the author as a general introduction to his philosophy, it assails &quote;idols&quote; of Western philosophy and culture (Socratic rationality and Christian morality among them) and sets the scene for The Antichrist. In addition to its full-scale attack on Christianity and Jesus Christ, The Antichrist denounces organized religion as a whole. H. L. Mencken declared that &quote;it is, to many sensitive men, in the worst possible taste, but at bottom it is enormously apt and effective — on the surface, it is undoubtedly a good show.&quote; Students of philosophy, history, and German literature will find these works essential to an understanding of Nietzschean philosophy.
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2012
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  • Ben Kartodjohas quoted5 years ago
    Are you genuine? or only a dissembler? A representative? or the represented itself?—Finally, you are merely an imitation of a dissembler
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    Do you intend to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go by yourself? . . . One must know what one intends, and that one intends something
  • Ben Kartodjohas quoted5 years ago
    How little is required for happiness! The sound of a bag-pipe.—Without music life would be a mistake.

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