by Friedrich Nietzsche · Edimat Libros · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497643610
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«El ocaso de los ídolos» is the philosophical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche, published by Edimat Libros in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
In this work, Nietzsche attacks Western philosophy and Christian morality, which he considers symptoms of the decadence of European culture, and proposes the will to power as a way to overcome nihilism. The «ídolos» of the title are the old truths whose end, according to the author, is near.
Work originally published in 1889; this 2005 edition belongs to the collection Classics of World Literature (no. 11).
For general readers interested in philosophy and the classics of European thought, within a collection of world literature.
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.
