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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; R J Hollingdale; University Lecturer and Fellow Christ College Michael Tanner
Penguin Publishing Group
 9780140445145
0-14-044514-5

'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.

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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.