| Author/Contributor(s): | Nietzsche, Friedrich; Hollingdale, R. J.; Tanner, Michael; Tanner, Michael |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics |
| Date: | 2/15/1990 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.