by Friedrich Nietzsche · Maxi-Tusquets · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483105726
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«El ocaso de los ídolos» is the philosophical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche, published by Maxi-Tusquets in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
Nietzsche himself presented it in Ecce Homo as the announcement of the end of the old truth: the idols of the title are the beliefs and values held to be unshakeable. With a polemical tone, he examines traditional morality and suggests that behind the most praiseworthy actions may lurk the resentment of the weak towards the better endowed.
Published in March 1998; Fábula collection, number 85. Translated from German by Roberto Echavarren.
Aimed at readers interested in philosophy and in Nietzsche's 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.
