The Twilight of the Idols

The Twilight of the Idols (Götzen-Dämmerung) is a book by Friedrich Nietzsche, written in 1888, and published in 1889. It is a summary of his later philosophy.

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Friedrich Nietzsche - 1888 - 1889 - Philosophy

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It was originally titled A Psychologist's Idleness but renamed "Twilight of the Idols. How One Philosophizes With a Hammer." The hammer is a metaphor use by Nietzsche to say that he diagnoses the ill of the idols as a doctor, as a doctor beats the knee of his patient to test his reflex. In this case, however, he hears the hollow resonance of the false gods. The title, 'Twilight of the Idols', Götzen-Dämmerung in German, is a pun on the title of Richard Wagner's opera, Götterdämmerung, or 'Twilight of the Gods',

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Richard Wagner - Götterdämmerung

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The book is arranged as follows:

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• "The Problem of Socrates"
• "Reason in Philosophy"
• "How the Real World at Last Became a Myth"
• "Morality as Anti-Nature"
• "The Four Great Errors"
• "The Improvers of Mankind"
• "What the Germans Lack"
• "Expeditions of an Untimely Man"
• "What I Owe to the Ancients"
 
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