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Publisher Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date February 1, 2015
Pages 93
Binding Paperback
Edition Italian edition
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781507811498
ISBN-10 1507811497
Dimensions 0.25 by 7 by 10 in.
Weight 0.45 lbs.
Original list price $8.95
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Twilight of the Idols

 Friedrich Nietzsche

Text prepared from the original German and the translations by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale

Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer (German: Götzen-Dämmerung, oder, Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophirt) is a book by Friedrich Nietzsche, written in 1888, and published in 1889.

Twilight of the Idols was written in just over a week, between 26 August and 3 September 1888, while Nietzsche was on holiday in Sils-Maria. As Nietzsche's fame and popularity was spreading both inside and outside Germany, he felt that he needed a text that would serve as a short introduction to his work. Originally titled A Psychologist's Idleness, it was renamed Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophize with a Hammer.

The latter title, Götzen-Dämmerung in German, is a pun on the title of Richard Wagner's opera, Götterdämmerung, or 'Twilight of the Gods'. Götze is a German word for "idol" or "false god". Walter Kaufmann has suggested that in his use of the word Nietzsche might be indebted to Francis Bacon.

Nietzsche criticizes German culture of the day as unsophisticated 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.



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With Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann (other contributor) | Italian edition edition from Createspace Independent Pub (February 1, 2015)
9781507811498 | details & prices | 93 pages | 7.00 × 10.00 × 0.25 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $8.95
About: Twilight of the Idols Friedrich NietzscheText prepared from the original German and the translations by Walter Kaufmann and R.

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