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The Twilight of the Idols, Or, How to Philosophise with the Hammer

By Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

2019-10-10 19:23:14

Nietzsche criticizes German culture of the day as unsophisticated, decadent and nihilistic, and shoots some disapproving arrows at key French, British, and Italian cultural figures who represent similar tendencies. In contrast to all these alleged re ... Read more
Nietzsche criticizes German culture of the day as unsophisticated, decadent and nihilistic, and shoots some disapproving arrows at key French, British, and Italian cultural figures who represent similar tendencies. In contrast to all these alleged representatives of cultural "decadence", Nietzsche applauds Caesar, Napoleon, Goethe, Thucydides, and the Sophists as healthier and stronger types. The book states the transvaluation of all values as Nietzsche's final and most important project and gives a view of antiquity wherein the Romans for once take precedence over the ancient Greeks, albeit only in the field of literature. Less

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File size256.776 KB
Print pages208
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date1990-02-15
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780140445145
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual histo...

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