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

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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 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 Nietzches 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 Nietzches argument and places the works in their historical and philosophical context.