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Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ (Penguin Classics S.) by [Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael Tanner, R. J. Hollingdale]

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by Friedrich Nietzsche (Author), Michael Tanner (Introduction), R. J. Hollingdale (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition

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In these two devastating late works, Nietzsche offers a powerful attack on the morality and the beliefs of his time

Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols is a 'grand declaration of war' on reason, psychology and theology, which combines highly charged personal attacks on his contemporaries (in particular Hegel, Kant and Schopenhauer) with a lightning tour of his own philosophy. It also paves the way for The Anti-Christ, Nietzsche'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.

Translated by R. J. Hollingdale with an Introduction by Michael Tanner

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The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later. Known for saying that “god is dead,” Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended.
R. J. Hollingdale has translated eleven of Nietzsche’s books and published two books about him. He has also translated works by, among others, Schopenhauer, Goethe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Lichtenberg and Theodor Fontane, many of these for the Penguin Classics. He is Honorary President of the British Nietzsche Society, and was for the Australian academic year 1991 Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Melbourne. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 25, 1990
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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What was Nietzsche About in His Last Works?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 7, 2021

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It’s easy to criticize Nietzsche’s latter works: his dismissal of key elements of Darwin; his idiosyncratic and narrow minded understanding of Christianity; the egoism that was soon to burst into insanity—these are not books that would garner the respect of a reader newly introduced to his corpus.

But he was about something and that something was important. He planned a total rewrite of his personal philosophy: beginning with a critique of the European culture of his day, proceeding to criticize Christianity as the most distasteful of mankind’s errors and then adding a celebration of life rooted in his love of ancient Greece—most particularly the cult of Dionysius.

The positive part was never fully written so we’re left with only the via negativa. But you do catch a glimpse of what Nietzsche would have said: a hearty embrace of the epic possibilities of human life—a personal sense of superiority to the common man, a call for corresponding deeds, an epistemology that sees the senses as the only trustworthy source and the body as all of man, a thorough denial of any world but the material, and, most importantly, the ability to look into the most awful and cruel aspects of the human condition and still embrace life with a passion.

Ironically, like Dostoevsky’s Ivan Karamazov, Nietzsche seemed to look into the abyss and fall headlong from the sense of vertigo.

And, rather than being particularly relevant, we now take our views of human nature from evolutionary psychology and the other physiological sciences. Nietzsche’s vision of humanity is rather idiosyncratic and passe.

But if you do read the latter Nietzsche you get a seat at one of the most compelling intellectual dramas of the nineteenth century. Like the later Plato, it’s not for everyone, but for those who’ve chosen to wade into the philosophic effort to understand the human condition these works are still worth the read.

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With a hammer in hand.

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A fantastic book and essential reading for anyone looking to conduct themselves expertly when confronting the insanity of the modern world.

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A necessary text

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 9, 2020

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Twilight of The Idols is an unpleasant, though necessary text, especially in light of recent events. I highly recommend anyone questioning the increasingly ideologically conformist society we are a part of to read and question. Regardless of whether the reader accepts or rejects Nietzsche's claims, one is better for having been exposed to his thought (or madness as the case may be). Examples- "Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves," or when "...the mouthpiece of the decaying strata of society, raises his voice in splendid indignation for "right", "justice", "equal rights", he is only groaning under the burden of his ignorance, which cannot understand why he actually suffers..." Highly recommend for anyone trying to understand Nietzsche, life, independent thought, and how fascism perverted Nietzsche's ideas.

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Evan St. Louis

Quality Translation and Print

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 29, 2022

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Formatting is good, softback is flexible but keeps some rigidity to keep the book closed when it is closed. Translation is clear.

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Sarliel

A great read

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I got this book for a class and I'm very glad to have read this book. I found the philosophy very interesting and I don't even really like philosophy in general. Honestly, I would read this book again just because of how interesting I found it.

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Wonderful

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Great! Fast Delivery

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Brendan Conard

good quality for low price

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 25, 2016

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Book arrived in great shape. Haven't read most of it, seeing as it is just a reference book for one of my classes, but so far I am enjoying it!

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James V. Eccles

Necessary Reading

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 15, 2018

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One must read Nietzsche. You cannot avoid these two essays.

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Perturbing!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 14, 2021

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Nietzsche is a genius, it’s kind of difficult to describe Nietzsche as good or bad, he is a genius writer and his command of language and vocabulary is incomparable, he’s as good as Shakespeare. Therefore, Nietzsche is a ‘good’ writer, however, good is a ambiguous term, I mean Nietzsche was not ‘good’ as in goodhearted like a Saint, he hated Christianity, theologians and priests, which to me all exemplify good heartedness. Therefore, Nietzsche was a very ‘good’ writer but an evil philosopher. Concerning Christianity Nietzsche is so opposite to most of us that he might as well be an ‘evil’ writer. Therefore, would it be right to call Nietzsche (in modern youthful terms) a ‘wicked’ writer? Booyackasha! Is that a ‘good’ thing? Most disturbingly, one can sense the origins of The Third Reich in Nietzsche’s evil philosophy and works. Nietzsche questioned Christianity before Adolf Hitler was even born, he attacked Christianity intellectually and philosophically, he broke Christianity, he made a breakthrough and made it possible and even feasible to be atheist, pagan and heathen, which is the root or cause of why the Nazis were so evil. The Holocaust happened not because of a ‘Jewish question’, it happened because of a ‘Christian question’, which no one more than Nietzsche (followed by the Nazis) asked and answered. Therefore, this book is exquisite linguistically, but it also leaves one feeling dispirited, disappointed and melancholy. The lesson is never question Christianity.

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Martin walsh

Nietzsche with a sledgehammer!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 25, 2022

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Read this book years ago still to a degree impenetrable to the layman twilight of the idols I mean re read but more accessible. Antichrist much more readable and accessible guy deffo philosophies with a sledgehammer!

True persuasive power

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 3, 2014

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The Anti-Christ is a comprehensive and devastating critique. Essential reading for atheists and sceptics. However, this version does have typos and if you want/need to refer to footnotes you would best with a print edition.

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LeBrit

Great philosopher

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 10, 2015

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Nietzsche does not deserve the sometimes negative response to his philosophy. Okay, so he tells it like it is and doesn't romanticise. Isn't thi what you require of a philosopher?

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