by Friedrich Nietzsche · Alianza · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420614670
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«Crepúsculo de los ídolos» is the philosophical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche, published by Alianza in hardback (176 pages, in Spanish).
Originally published in 1889, this work condenses the essentials of Nietzsche's thought: it criticises traditional Western philosophy, topples the «ídolos» or ideals of culture, and defends life, individuality, and the will to power. It is a brief, synthetic, and polemical text that serves as an introduction to the whole of his philosophy.
The full original title is Götzen-Dämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophirt; the Spanish translation is by Andrés Sánchez Pascual.
For philosophy students and readers seeking a brief, direct first approach to Nietzsche's thought.
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.
