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TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS WITH THE ANTICHRIST AND ECCE HOMO PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Friedrich Nietzsche,Antony M. Ludovici,Ray Furness,Tom Griffith | 288 pages | 06 Oct 2007 | Wordsworth Editions Ltd | 9781840226133 | English | Herts, United Kingdom Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche January pages. The year marked the last year of Friedrich Nietzsche's intellectual career and the culmination of his philosophical development. In that final productive year, he worked on six books, all of which are now, for the first time, presented in English in a single volume. Together these new translations provide a fundamental and complete introduction to Nietzsche's mature thought and to the virtuosity and versatility of his most fully developed style. The writings included here have a bold, sometimes radical tone that can be connected to Nietzsche's rising profile and growing confidence. In The Antichrist , we are offered an extended critique of Christianity and Christian morality alongside blunt diagnoses of contemporary Europe's cultural decadence. In Dionysus Dithyrambs we are presented with his only work composed exclusively of poetry, and in Twilight of the Idols we find a succinct summary of his mature philosophical views. At times the works are also openly personal, as in The Case of Wagner , which presents Nietzsche's attempt to settle accounts with his former close friend, German composer Richard Wagner, and in his provocative autobiography, Ecce Homo , which sees Nietzsche taking stock of his past and future while also reflecting on many of his earlier texts. Scrupulously edited, this critical volume also includes commentary by esteemed Nietzsche scholar Andreas Urs Sommer. Seller Inventory AAZ More information about this seller Contact this seller. Book Description Wordsworth Editions Ltd, New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since Seller Inventory GB Book Description Condition: New. Friedrich Nietzsche. Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd , This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. View all copies of this ISBN edition:. About the Author : Nietzsche has been proclaimed the seminal figure of modern philosophy as well as one of the most creative and critically influential geniuses in the history of secular thought. Buy New Learn more about this copy. Other Popular Editions of the Same Title. Search for all books with this author and title. Customers who bought this item also bought. Stock Image. New Paperback Quantity Available: Seller Rating:. Published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd In January , Nietzsche suffered a sudden mental collapse; he lived the last 10 years of his life in a condition of insanity. After his death, his sister published many of his papers under the title The Will to Power. Nietzsche was a radical questioner who often wrote polemically with deliberate obscurity, intending to perplex, shock, and offend his readers. He attacked the entire metaphysical tradition in Western philosophy, especially Christianity and Christian morality, which he thought had reached its final and most decadent form in modern scientific humanism, with its ideals of liberalism and democracy. It has become increasingly clear that his writings are among the deepest and most prescient sources we have for acquiring a philosophical understanding of the roots of 20th-century culture. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. In Dionysus Dithyrambs we are presented with his only work composed exclusively of poetry, and in Twilight of the Idols we find a succinct summary of his mature philosophical views. At times the works are also openly personal, as in The Case of Wagner , which presents Nietzsche's attempt to settle accounts with his former close friend, German composer Richard Wagner, and in his provocative autobiography, Ecce Homo , which sees Nietzsche taking stock of his past and future while also reflecting on many of his earlier texts. Scrupulously edited, this critical volume also includes commentary by esteemed Nietzsche scholar Andreas Urs Sommer. Through this new collection, students and scholars are given an essential introduction to Nietzsche's late thought. Since , he has been Director of the Friedrich-Nietzsche-Stiftung and has served as Director of the research center "Nietzsche- Kommentar" at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since Friedrich Nietzsche, Edited by Alan D. In Christianity the instincts of the subjugated and the oppressed come to the foreground: it is the lowest classes who seek their salvation in it, the Chandala. Buddhism is preferred for its sophistication, its dignity and its serenity, and Hinduism is praised for its insistence on a hierarchical caste system; Islam is likewise extolled as a virile religion, a religion for men. The sickly Christian, racked with guilt, told that his body is a teeming mass of worms, that sexuality is a sin, that beauty is evil and that eternal damnation awaits, cuts a very sorry figure indeed. The central section of The Antichrist consists of a recapitulation of certain preoccupations of The Genealogy of Morals but also contains an idiosyncratic and in many ways a sympathetic portrayal of Jesus who became, we are informed, a hapless victim of political machinations. Christianity was not a counter-movement against the Jews but a continuation of the Jewish drive for world domination; to turn the Jew on the cross into a redeemer, to see him as a sacrifice sent by God for the forgiveness of sins, to insist upon a resurrection, a Second Coming was, according to Nietzsche, a Jewish master-trick instigated by Paul in his rabbinical insolence to gain believers, to force the Gentiles to kneel before a lacerated, hanging Jew. In Christianity Judaism found its most sublime continuation, a religion of vindictiveness and resentment propagated by an ascetic priesthood. It is to be regretted that Nietzsche only got to know Dostoevsky in French translations in later life; the section on criminality in Twilight of the Idols refers to the Russian novelist as the only psychologist from whom he, Nietzsche, had anything to learn. How is it possible, Nietzsche asks, that the man Jesus should extol blessedness in peace and gentleness and preach that the kingdom of heaven should belong to children? The gospel died on the cross. As in The Twilight of the Idols Nietzsche inserts a flippant yet very telling story to vary his pungent philippics. Out of boredom God creates man, but man, too, is bored and God creates the animals for his amusement. This is his second blunder, for Eve is of the serpent and man is tempted to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. The old God is seized by mortal terror: man now becomes his rival, for science makes him equal to God and hence sin, the original sin, is committed. Man must be punished, and the Lord heaps distress and every kind of misery upon him and his helpmeet — guilt, sickness, age and toil. Amongst the afflictions which God has heaped upon Eve Nietzsche includes the suffering and danger to life which could accompany childbirth, thus ironically demonstrating his great mercy. Christianity, we hear, vents its abysmal vulgarity on procreation, woman and marriage, for the origins of man are sullied by such a dogma. In Manu Nietzsche finds dignity, purity and praise, a world utterly remote from that created by a God who increases the affliction of woman in childbirth and where a revengeful priesthood revels in original sin, exorcisms, commination and a neurotic cult of morbid relics. He now assails Christianity for undermining hierarchical orders in its doctrine of the equality of all before God. A high culture is a pyramid with the strongest at the top and the broad base below, and those who seek to loosen the stones comprising this pyramid, the socialist agitators and anarchists of his day, are vilified mercilessly. It was the same in Rome, Nietzsche explains: that magnificent edifice, the imperium Romanum , was undermined and destroyed by cunning, secretive and vindictive vampires who sucked its marrow from its bones — by Christians. This remarkable critique of, and curse on, Christianity draws to an end with a eulogy, a condemnation and a curse. The Renaissance is seen by Nietzsche as an attempt to overthrow Christian values and to restore triumphant art upon the throne, the worship of earthly splendour in all its amoral glory, infinitely remote from Christian humility, morbidity and self-laceration. Ruthlessness, power, energy and beauty upon the throne of St Peter — but it was not to be. A German monk, Luther, came to Rome and vindictive Christianity was reinstated, paving the way for the Reformation. The final curse is pronounced on Christianity, that immortal. Upload Sign In Join. Find your next favorite book Become a member today and read free for 30 days Start your free 30 days. Home Books Classic Literature. He who fights with monsters, Nietzsche once told us, should look to it that he himself does not become one, and when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Reader, beware. Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. More Details Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Oct 17, Sawsan rated it liked it. Nietzsche's thinking is sharp, brilliant and accurate at some points sometimes through reading i found him troubled, sarcastic and even narcissist but he has his own philosophy to analyze and clarifies his ideas for sure i don't like some of his views, but it's ok generally his thoughts encourage and open many areas of life, emotions, and motives to think about. View all 3 comments. View 2 comments. Dec 01, Xander rated it it was ok. These three short books are the last works Friedrich Nietzsche wrote - before he flung himself around the neck of a horse, proclaimed it a saint, and collapsed.