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Twilight of the Idols with The Antichrist and Ecce Homo

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Twilight of the Idols with The Antichrist and Ecce Homo
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Friedrich Nietzsche
Translated by Antony M. Ludovici
Introduction by Ray Furness
Series edited by Tom Griffith
SeriesWordsworth Classics of World Literature
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreWestern philosophy - c 1600 to c 1900
ISBN/Barcode 9781840226133
ClassificationsDewey:193 193
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Imprint Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publication Date 5 June 2001
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Translated by Antony M. Ludovici. With an Introduction by Ray Furness. The three works in this collection, all dating from Nietzsche's last lucid months, show him at his most stimulating and controversial: the portentous utterances of the prophet (together with the ill-defined figure of the UEbermensch) are forsaken, as wit, exuberance and dazzling insights predominate, forcing the reader to face unpalatable insights and to rethink every commonly accepted 'truth'. Thinking with Nietzsche, in Jaspers' words, means holding one's own against him, and we are indeed refreshed and challenged by the vortex of his thoughts, by concepts which test and probe. In The Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, and Ecce Homo Nietzsche writes at breakneck speed of his provenance, his adversaries and his hopes for mankind; the books are largely epigrammatic and aphoristic, allowing this poet-philosopher to bewilder and fascinate us with their strangeness and their daring. He who fights with monsters, Nietzsche once told us, should look to it that he himself does not become one, and when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Reader, beware.