by Friedrich Nietzsche · Edimat Libros, S. A. Madrid · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484031529
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«El ocaso de los ídolos: cómo se filosofa a martillazos» is the philosophical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche, published by Edimat in paperback (160 pages).
Nietzsche conceived this work as a brief introduction to the whole of his philosophy and as a balance sheet of his own work. In it he reviews his approaches with a vocabulary drawn from physiology, pathology and medicine, in a book that is the most synoptic and concentrated of his entire output.
The edition belongs to the Clásicos de siempre collection. The work originally appeared in 1889 under the title «Götzen-Dämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophirt».
It is an entry point to Nietzsche's thought: a brief and synthetic work for those who want to approach his philosophy.
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.
