by Friedrich Nietzsche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070324743
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«Crépuscule des idoles, ou, Comment philosopher à coups de marteau» is the philosophical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche, published by Gallimard in paperback.
Nietzsche examines with irony the great theoretical constructions of the West: Socratic philosophy, morality, religion, and science. Against the theoretical man, he champions the tragic spirit of Dionysus and, in an aphoristic style, denounces the consoling fictions —progress, providence, faith in history— that conceal becoming.
French edition from the Folio Essais collection (no. 88), translated by Jean-Claude Hémery. Original title: Götzen-Dämmerung.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879. He afterward lived as an independent writer, spending much of his life in relative solitude and financial insecurity while moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France in search of climates that might alleviate his condition, and in the following decade, he completed much of his core writing. In 1889, aged 44, he suffered a neurological collapse, and thereafter a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia; he lived out his remaining 11 years, first under the care of his mother, and later his sister, until his death. His works and his philosophy have fostered not only extensive scholarship but also much popular interest.
