by Friedrich Nietzsche · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420675411
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Twilight of the Idols, or How to Philosophize with a Hammer, is a work by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Published in 1888, this book is a concise introduction to Nietzsche's central ideas, addressing topics such as morality, reason, religion, and Western philosophy. With an aphoristic and provocative style, Nietzsche criticizes traditional values and proposes a new philosophical perspective based on the will to power and personal overcoming.
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.
