Twilight of the Idols
- ISBN-10
- 019955496X
- ISBN-13
- 9780199554966
- Series
- Twilight of the Idols
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-10-09
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Description
Nietzsche intended Twilight of the Idols to serve as a short introduction to the whole of his philosophy, and to be the most synoptic of all his books. A masterpiece of polemic, this `great declaration of war' targets not only `eternal idols' like Socratic rationality and Christian morality but also their contemporary counterparts, as Nietzsche the `untimely man' goes roaming in the gloaming of nineteenth-century European culture. This brilliant new translation is supplemented by a detailed commentary on one of Neitzsche's most condensed works.
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