# Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ

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- Book: [Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ](https://www.bookquiver.com/nietzsche/twilight-of-idols-and-anti-christ) ([Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nietzsche/twilight-of-idols-and-anti-christ.md))
- Authors: [Nietzsche](https://www.bookquiver.com/nietzsche)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-514-5
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2003-05-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Twilight of the Idols', an attack on all the prevalent ideas of his time, offers a lightning tour of his whole philosophy. It also prepares the way for 'The Anti-Christ', a final assault on institutional Christianity. Both works show Nietzsche lashing out at self-deception, astounded at how often morality is based on vengefulness and resentment. Both reveal a profound understanding of human mean-spiritedness which still cannot destroy the underlying optimism of Nietzsche, the supreme affirmer among the great philosophers.