Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Antichrist

Beschreibung

As the last of Nietzsche's philosophical works, The Antichrist holds a special place. It is not so much a culmination of his life's work as it is a distillation of his frustration with the small-mindedness that he saw in the popular culture. His attacks on the contemporary Christian values of the day reached a crescendo as he proposed a "higher morality" and a "transmutation of all values". It is from this work that Nietzsche earned a reputation as an enemy of Christianity although he continued to maintain an admiration for the figure of Jesus and other elements of Christianity. His revolt against Christian faith and morals painted him as a free-thinker and a preacher of a new morality which transposed and deposed the Christian Virtues. Revolt against the whole civilized environment in which he was brought up is the keynote of Nietzsche's literary career. The persuasiveness of Nietzsche's arguments is due in no small part to his epigrammatic brilliance, extreme vigor and uncompromising revolt against all conventions in science and conduct. The sensitive and intellectually acute translation by H. L. Mencken, along with his insightful introduction, adds immeasurably to the coherence of this edition. With this English language edition both Nietzsche's philosophy and its audience are the fortunate beneficiaries of Mencken's considerable abilities.

Autor

German philosopher and renowned scholar Friedrich Nietzsche was born on 15 October 1944, in Rocken, Prussia- Germany. His father was Carl Ludwig Nietzsche and mother Franziska Nietzsche. His father was a Lutheran preacher, who died when Nietzsche was only four-years old. After his father's death Nietzsche family shifted to Naumburg, he studied in a preparatory school and after that he joined prestigious Schulpforts School. He studied in University of Bonn and Leipzig, he was interested in philology, literature, linguistics and history. He did job as a professor of classical philology at the University of Basel in Switzerland. His first book' The Birth of Tragedy' was published in 1872 and 'Human, All Too Human' in 1878. Nietzsche believed in realities of life, he glorified the individuals and culture. He openly challenged the basics of Christianity and conventional ethics. He is famous for his thought 'God is dead'. At the early age of 55 years, on 25 August 1900 Nietzsche died. His popular works - Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Anti - Christ, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Gay Science, The Birth of Tragedy etc.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Digital Pulse Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 143g
• ISBN-13: 9781934255094
• ISBN-10: 1934255092
• Artikelnr.: 22829994