by Friedrich Nietzsche · Edaf · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788441409781
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«El crepúsculo de los ídolos» is the philosophical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche, published by Edaf in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
The author examines the inherited values that have organized life in the West and treats them as idols: ideas elevated to the category of supreme that dictate behavior. Throughout the work, Nietzsche questions the foundations of philosophy, morality and religion, and shows how those false conceptions have shaped a way of life.
Part of the Biblioteca Edaf collection; the volume includes a prologue by Agustín Izquierdo and a translation by José Carlos Mardomingo Sierra.
For readers of philosophy, ethics and morality who want to approach the critique of values in Western thought.
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.
