Twilight of the Idols (Friedrich Nietzsche) - Softcover

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1537629654 ISBN 13: 9781537629650

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

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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 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 former title, Gotzen-Dammerung in German, is a pun on the title of Richard Wagner's opera, Gotterdammerung, 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.

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• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1537629654
• ISBN 13: 9781537629650
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92