by Friedrich Nietzsche · MESTAS Ediciones, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416775156
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Twilight of the Idols, or How to Philosophize with a Hammer, published in the final years of Friedrich Nietzsche's turbulent life, represents the destruction of a house of cards where no one emerges unscathed from the fall. From the structure of philosophy, he takes the opportunity to annihilate the concepts of politics, morality, and of course any kind of religion—which he hated, as he thought it was one of the causes of man's ills—, democracy, art in general, etc. Nietzsche makes us understand that our destiny is condemned to absolute decadence, that our steps, one by one, lead us to that inevitable fall. Human beings, in any case, could put up certain impediments, certain barriers that prevent the immediacy of the debacle, but they will never be able to avoid it in one way or another. Quixotic ideas that, deep down, overflow with reason and have given future generations a different way of understanding the world, quite contrary to that exposed in previous centuries.
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.
