'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
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