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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 260
EAN num: 9781604593273
ISBN number: 160459327X
Label: Wilder Publications
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Page Count: 108
Printing Date: April 10, 2008
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Here is Friedrich Nietzsche's great masterpiece The Anti-Christ, wherein Nietzsche attacks Christianity as a blight on humanity. This classic is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand Nietzsche and his place within the history of philosophy. 'We should not deck out and embellish Christianity: it has waged a war to the death against this higher type of man, it has put all the deepest instincts of this type under its ban, it has developed its concept of evil, of the Evil One himself, out of these instincts-the strong man as the typical reprobate, the 'outcast among men.' Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self-preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation. The most lamentable example: the corruption of Pascal, who believed that his intellect had been destroyed by original sin, whereas it was actually destroyed by Christianity!' -Friedrich Nietzsche
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Maxims and Arrows. Twilight Of the Idols
Questions of Conscience:
37. You run on AHEAD? -- Do you do so as a herdsman? or as an exception? A third possibility would be as a deserter '. . . . FIRST question of conscience.
38. Are you genuine? or only an actor? A representative? or that itself which is represented? --Finally, are you no more than an imitation of an actor . . . . SECOND question of conscience.
40. Are you one who looks on? or who sets to work? -- or who looks away, turns aside. . . .THIRD question of conscience.
41. Do you want to accompany? or go off alone?. . . . One must know WHAT one wants and THAT one wants. --FOURTH question of conscience.
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WTP 910 "Type of my disciples-- To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities--I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished:I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove yesterday whether one is worth anything or not--that one endures."
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M&A, Twilight
39. THE DISSAPOINTED MAN SPEAKS. --I sought great human beings, I never found anything but APES of their ideal.
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Mixed Opinions and Maxims, Human All Too Human
130. Readers' bad manners. -- A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against the author when he praises his second book at the expense of the very first (or vice versa) and then asks the author to be grateful for that.
137. The worst readers.-- The worst readers are those who proceed like plundering soldiers: they pick up a few things they can use, soil and confuse the rest, and blaspheme the whole.
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"Of all writing I love only that which is written
in blood.
Write with blood: and you will
discover that blood is spirit."
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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I went into this book with no real knowledge of Nietzche's writings, and even less about how funny the topic of Christianity could be as told from the Nihilist perspective. I was chuckling more often than not while reading about the history of the Christian faith as he belittles their faith in what he would refer to as a weak and underwhelming God painted in our own image... I look forward to reading more from this brilliant mind and I hope it all proves to be as entertaining as "The Anti Christ".
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The Cosimo publisher is ripping off other editions of this book. This book has been published by other publishers *with* all the footnotes, but Cosimo strips out all of the editorial material and offers up a second-rate printing.
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In this essay Nietzsche denounces Christianity "as the institutionalized negation of the will to live" (as did Adorno in his Negative Dialectics).
For Nietzsche decadent morals, such as the Christian one, refer to an ideal order and make their codes conform to it, not to the reality. But the genesis of an ideal hides human (very human) reasons. Values and categorical imperatives arise from a resentment of weak man towards the reality and life, so Christianity is characterized by the humility's virtue ( that is unconfessed hate against the powerful people and the not so secret will to subject them) and by value of pity (that is in antagonism to all the self-preserving instincts.
The phylosopher deplores Christian morals also because it represents the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation. according to N, only Protestant theologians, defined by Nietzsche "hemiplegic paralysis of Christianity and of reason", could take Kant under their patronage and accept the pernicious idea of a virtue which has its roots in mere respect for the concept of "virtue". Kant's categorical imperative is, for Nietzsche, a dangerous abstraction. It is the idea, developed by a Nihilist embedded in the fumes Christian dogmatism, that regards "pleasure as an objection".
By sharing or not the Nietzsche's ideas, the reader greatly will enjoy the lively style of this excellent writer, "the very first immoralist", who all in all had a liking for The Galilean, considered as "heiliger Anarchist" and one and only Christian.
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Please be aware that this refers ONLY to the Cosimo Classics edition of H.L. Mencken's translation of "The Anti-Christ," not to any others.
This is a slipshod ripoff of the 1999 See Sharp Press edition of "The Anti-Christ." First, the "editors" at Cosimo Classics makes two gross errors on the copyright page: 1) They put the original publishing date of the Mencken translation at 1895, when in fact it was published in 1920; 2) They claim copyright of this work which is in the public domain. The kindest terms for these these things are incompetent and sleazy.
Worse, Cosimo omitted the Publishing house's Note from the See Sharp edition, which dealt with Mencken's anti-semitic comments in his Introduction. They also omitted ALL of the footnotes from the See Sharp edition, both those of the See Sharp editor and those of Mencken. The only reason for this that seems plausible is that they feared legal action and were too lazy to track down a copy of the original 1920 Knopf edition to check whose footnotes were whose. So, they chose to publish an incomplete version of Mencken's translation rather than go to such small bother.
Their laziness runs so deep that they didn't even bother to scan in the See Sharp edition and then produce their own type. No, they simply reproduced the type from the See Sharp edition while stripping out the footnotes. (Compare the interior pages via "Look Inside the Book" -- they're identical. Same typeface, same line breaks, even the same typos.)
Please buy any other edition of this very good book other than this very sleazy Cosimo Classics edition.
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