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In Twilight of the Idols, 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... Read Full Overview

Twilight of the Idols presents a vivid, compressed overview of many of Nietzsche's mature ideas, including his attack on Plato's Socrates and on the Platonic legacy in Western philosophy and culture. Polt provides a trustworthy rendering of Nietzsche's text in contemporary American... Read Full Overview

EL OCASO DE LOS ÍDOLOS: COMO SE FILOSOFA A MARTILLAZOS - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE "Uno debe ser superior a la humanidad en fuerza, en altivez de alma y desprecio" En esta obra devastadora, Nietzsche ofrece un sostenido ataque, a menudo morda, contra la moralidad y las creencias de... Read Full Overview

"Twilight of the Idols means that the old truth is on its last legs," declared Friedrich Nietzsche in this 1889 polemic. Forceful in his language and profound in his message, the philosopher delivered the nineteenth century's most devastating attack on Christianity. Intended... Read Full Overview

Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a short introduction to the whole of his philosophy, and the most synoptic of all his books, bristles with a register of vocabulary derived from physiology, pathology, symptomatalogy... Read Full Overview

Of The Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche says in Ecce Homo: -"If anyone should desire to obtain a rapid sketch of how everything before my time was standing on its head, he should begin reading me in this book. That which is called 'Idols' on the title-page is simply the old truth... Read Full Overview

Para Nietzsche se filosofa con el martillo cuando se lleva a cabo una cr?tica de la metaf?sica y de la moral. La cr?tica tiene como objetivo la transvaloraci?n de todos los valores, concebida ?sta como inversi?n de los valores supremos. La transvaloraci?n se convierte en una... Read Full Overview

Twilight of the Idols

Friedrich Nietzsche 1895]

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: G tzen-D mmerung, oder, Wie... Read Full Overview

Twilight of the Idols Friedrich Nietzsche How to Philosophize with a Hammer 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... Read Full Overview

Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a short introduction to the whole of his philosophy, and the most synoptic of all his books, bristles with a register of vocabulary derived from physiology, pathology, symptomatalogy... Read Full Overview

En el libro retoma la idea de la transmutaci n de los valores. Donde algunos ven falsedad, l ve la oportunidad para desestimar afirmaciones que seg n l afectan la filosof a y que en esa poca (y es extra o en una poca como el siglo XIX) no ve a un avance como tal. Y es cuando... Read Full Overview

Twilight of the Idols presents a vivid, compressed overview of many of Nietzsche’s mature ideas, including his attack on Plato’s Socrates and on the Platonic legacy in Western philosophy and culture. Polt provides a trustworthy rendering of Nietzsche’s text in contemporary American... Read Full Overview

The Twilight of the Idols sees philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche write about the contemporary culture of Germany, amid which he lived. Nietzsche turns his vehement style upon what he perceives as moral inadequacies and ill-functioning on the part of its people. The central point... Read Full Overview

En el ?ltimo periodo de su vida l?cida , Nietzsche resume su lucha contra las falsas concepciones que conforman la tradici?n de la filosof?a, la moral y la religi?n de Occidente. Para llevar a cabo tal ataque, el fil?sofo decide auscultar aquellos ?dolos que han aparecido a lo... Read Full Overview

El libro describe en primer t rmino c mo el rito tanto apol neo y dionis aco se debaten constantemente en la vida de los seres humanos. As entonces se tiene un primer acercamiento al comportamiento y la anhelada explicaci n de los cl sicos. Sin embargo las cr ticas no se har... Read Full Overview

El libro describe en primer t rmino c mo el rito tanto apol neo y dionisiaco se debaten constantemente en la vida de los seres humanos. As entonces se tiene un primer acercamiento al comportamiento y la anhelada explicaci n de los cl sicos. Sin embargo las cr ticas no se har... Read Full Overview

En el libro retoma la idea de la transmutaci n de los valores. Donde algunos ven falsedad, l ve la oportunidad para desestimar afirmaciones que seg n l afectan la filosof a y que en esa poca (y es extra o en una poca como el siglo XIX) no ve a un avance como tal. Y es cuando... Read Full Overview

The Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche or, How to Philosophise with the Hammer. The Antichrist, Notes to Zarathustra, and Eternal Recurrence and translated By Anthony M. Ludovici. Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer is a book by Friedrich Nietzsche,... Read Full Overview

Friedrich Nietzsche realiza una cr tica exhaustiva de la cultura, religi n y filosof a occidental, mediante la deconstrucci n de los conceptos que las integran basada en el an lisis de las actitudes morales (positivas y negativas) hacia la vida. Este trabajo afect profundamente... Read Full Overview

En el libro retoma la idea de la transmutaci n de los valores. Donde algunos ven falsedad, l ve la oportunidad para desestimar afirmaciones que seg n l afectan la filosof a y que en esa poca (y es extra o en una poca como el siglo XIX) no ve a un avance como tal. Y es cuando... Read Full Overview