by Friedrich Nietzsche · Newton Compton Editori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788879835428
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«Crepuscolo degli idoli» is the philosophical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche, published by Newton Compton Editori in paperback (100 pages, in Italian).
Late work by Nietzsche: attacks the inherited truths of Western philosophy and morality, from Socrates to Christianity. Denounces errors such as the confusion between cause and effect or faith in free will, and champions art as an affirmation of life, with an aphoristic style that "philosophizes with a hammer".
Work originally published in 1889. Complete Italian edition with translation by Mirella Ulivieri, in the Tascabili economici Newton collection, published in 1994.
For readers interested in nineteenth-century philosophy and the Nietzschean critique of morality, religion, and culture.
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.
