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Idols Twilighte
This book has been translated by AL JAMAL publications
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.
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, Götzen-Dämmerung in German, is a pun on the title of Richard Wagner’s opera, Götterdämmerung, 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.
Twilight of the Idols
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