Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

By Friedrich Nietzsche, Judith Norman

Nietzsche's overdue works are amazing and uncompromising, and stand as monuments to his lucidity, rigor, and elegance. This quantity combines, for the 1st time in English, 5 of those works: The Antichrist, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche contra Wagner, and The Case of Wagner. Nietzsche takes on a few of his maximum adversaries in those works: conventional faith, modern tradition, and peculiarly, his one-time hero, Richard Wagner. His writing is concurrently serious and artistic, revealing his replacement philosophical imaginative and prescient, which, after greater than 100 years, nonetheless keeps its audacious originality.

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