The Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ

"Twilight of the Idols", an attack on all the prevalent ideas of his time, offers a lightning tour of his whole philosophy. It also prepares the way for "The Anti-Christ", a final assault on institutional Christianity. Both works show Nietzsche lashing out at self-deception, astounded at how often morality is based on vengefulness and resentment. Both reveal a profound understa...

"Twilight of the Idols", an attack on all the prevalent ideas of his time, offers a lightning tour of his whole philosophy. It also prepares the way for "The Anti-Christ", a final assault on institutional Christianity. Both works show Nietzsche lashing out at self-deception, astounded at how often morality is based on vengefulness and resentment. Both reveal a profound understanding of human mean-spiritedness which still cannot destroy the underlying optimism of Nietzsche, the supreme affirmer among the great philosophers.

尼采，德國著名哲學(xué)家，西方現(xiàn)代哲學(xué)的開創(chuàng)者，語言學(xué)家、文化評(píng)論家、詩人、作曲家，他的著作對(duì)于宗教、道德、現(xiàn)代文化、哲學(xué)、以及科學(xué)等領(lǐng)域提出了廣泛的批判和討論。他的寫作風(fēng)格獨(dú)特，經(jīng)常使用格言和悖論的技巧。尼采對(duì)于后代哲學(xué)的發(fā)展影響極大，尤其是在存在主義與后現(xiàn)代主義上 。

余明鋒，同濟(jì)大學(xué)哲學(xué)博士，師從孫周興教授；慕尼黑大學(xué)博士后。譯有《政治哲學(xué)與啟示宗教的挑戰(zhàn)(施特勞斯集)》（華夏出版社）、《同一與差異》（合譯）等。