Twilight Of The Idols

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998-03-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191605178

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Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

`Anyone who wants to gain a quick idea of how before me everything was topsy-turvy should make a start with this work. That which is called idol on the title-page is quite simply that which was called truth hitherto. Twilight of the Idols - in plain words: the old truth is coming to an end...' Nietzsche intended Twilight of the Idols to serve as a short introduction to his philosophy, and as a result it is the most synoptic of all his books. Continuing in the spirit of its immediate predecessors On The Genealogy of Morals and The Wagner Case, it is a masterpiece of polemic, targeting 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. He allies philosophy with psychology and physiology, relentlessly diagnozing the symptoms of decadence, and his stylistic virtuosity is such that the sheer delight he takes in his 'demonic' mischief-making communicates itself on every page. A brilliant new translation, this edition provides detailed commentary on a highly condensed and allusive work. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,Walter Kaufmann,R. J. Hollingdale
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 150062957X

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Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,Walter Kaufmann,R. J. Hollingdale Pdf

A Classic top 100 Book. Twilight of the Idols by 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 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 was a short introduction to his work; Twilight of the Idols is his attempt at this. Originally titled A Psychologist's Idleness, it was renamed Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer. The latter title, Gotzen-Dammerung in German, is a pun on the title of Richard Wagner's opera, Gotterdammerung, or 'Twilight of the Gods'. Gotze 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.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603848800

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Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

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 English, complete with notes prepared by the translator and Tracy Strong. An authoritative Introduction by Strong makes this an outstanding edition. Select Bibliography and Index.

Author : Aleš Debeljak
Publisher : White Pine Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : 1877727512

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Twilight of the Idols by Aleš Debeljak Pdf

This long, two-part essay raises disturbing questions about our intellectual commitment to the concept of multiculturalism and paints a haunting portrait of a place that no longer exists. The striking photographs show us what remains of a culturally rich and diverse place, where as Debeljak states, the people "until yesterday had lived in a single state, but who today have different countries. The guns of the Balkans have silenced those good vibrations. The stars have set, And of all seasons, the lands south of my own country know but a single one -- the deep, dark winter of death."

Author : Mark Lynn Anderson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520949423

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Twilight of the Idols by Mark Lynn Anderson Pdf

Twilight of the Idols revisits some of the sensational scandals of early Hollywood to evaluate their importance for our contemporary understanding of human deviance. By analyzing changes in the star system and by exploring the careers of individual stars—Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, and Mabel Normand among them—Mark Lynn Anderson shows how the era’s celebrity culture shaped public ideas about personality and human conduct and played a pivotal role in the emergent human sciences of psychology, anthropology, and sociology. Anderson looks at motion picture stars who embodied various forms of deviance—narcotic addiction, criminality, sexual perversion, and racial indeterminacy. He considers how the studios profited from popularizing ideas about deviance, and how the debates generated by the early Hollywood scandals continue to affect our notions of personality, sexuality, and public morals.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1840226137

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Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

Includes three works, all dating from Nietzsche's last lucid months, that aim show him at his most stimulating and controversial: the portentous utterances of the prophet (together with the ill-defined figure of the Ubermensch) are forsaken, as wit, exuberance and dazzling insights predominate.

Author : Daniel W. Conway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521892872

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Nietzsche's Dangerous Game by Daniel W. Conway Pdf

This is the first book-length treatment of the unique nature and development of Nietzsche's post-Zarathustran political philosophy. This later political philosophy is set in the context of the critique of modernity that Nietzsche advances in the years 1885-1888, in such texts as Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, The Case of Wagner, and Ecce Homo. Daniel Conway has written a powerful book about Nietzsche's own appreciation of the limitations of both his writing style and of his famous prophetic "stance".

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521585848

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Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

The four short works in Untimely Meditations were published by Nietzsche between 1873 and 1876.They deal with such broad topics as the relationship between popular and genuine culture, strategies for cultural reform, the task of philosophy, the nature of education, and the relationship between art, science and life. They also include Nietzsche's earliest statement of his own understanding of human selfhood as a process of endlessly 'becoming who one is'. As Daniel Breazeale shows in his introduction to this new edition of R. J. Hollingdale's translation of the essays, these four early texts are key documents for understanding the development of Nietzsche's thought and clearly anticipate many of the themes of his later writings. Nietzsche himself always cherished his Untimely Meditations and believed that they provide valuable evidence of his 'becoming and self-overcoming' and constitute a 'public pledge' concerning his own distinctive task as a philosopher.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781387401475

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be Friedrich Nietzsche's masterpiece. It includes the German philosopher's famous discussion of the phrase 'God is dead' as well as his concept of the Superman. Nietzsche delineates his Will to Power theory and devotes pages to critiquing Christian thinking, in particular Christianity's definition of good and evil. Revised translation with modern American English spelling.

Author : John Rapley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781471152771

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Twilight of the Money Gods by John Rapley Pdf

Imagine one day you went to a cash-machine and found your money was gone. You rushed to your branch, where a teller said that overnight people had stopped believing in money, and it all vanished. Seem incredible? It happened, and it could happen again. Twilight of the Money Gods is the story of economics, told not as the science it strove to be, but as the religion it became. Over two centuries, it searched for the hidden codes which would reveal the path to a promised land of material abundance. While its prophets, from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman, concerned themselves with the human condition, its priesthood gradually grew remote from its followers, until it lost sight of their tribulations. Today, amid a crisis of faith in their expertise, we must re-imagine an economics for a new era - one filled with both danger and opportunity.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche,Sigmund Freud,Erich Fromm,Albert Camus,Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798713802509

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Twilight of the Gods by Friedrich Nietzsche,Sigmund Freud,Erich Fromm,Albert Camus,Jean-Paul Sartre Pdf

A book of anticlerical works published by the Soviet publishing house 'Politizdat' in 1989. /// anti-christian experience of criticizing Christianity - a curse to Christianity /// the future of one illusion /// Psychoanalysis and religion /// problem - Freud and Jung - Religious experience analysis /// the myth of Sisyphus. Essay on the absurd.-philosophical suicide-absurd freedom/man/creativity/// Existentialism is Hunamisn

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCLA:31158002030731

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The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Pdf

Author : Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
Publisher : Random House
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 9780099480211

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A Guide for the Perplexed by Ernst Friedrich Schumacher Pdf

This book, by the author of 'Small is Beautiful' is about the different ways in which people may see and the blindness of only seeing in one particular way. The arguments Schumacher presents are invigorating, provoking and often dramatic.

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher : Carcanet Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : CHR 2001
ISBN : 0856463272

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Dithyrambs of Dionysus by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Pdf

The poems of the great nineteenth century philosopher, bilingually presented with R.J. Hollingdale's translations.

Author : Sue Prideaux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781524760823

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I Am Dynamite! by Sue Prideaux Pdf

"A biography of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche"--