The Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophise with the Hammer by Friedrich Nietzsche
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsOf The Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche says in Ecce Homo: “If anyone should desire to obtain a rapid sketch of how everything before my time was standing on its head, he should begin reading me in this book. That which is called ‘Idols’ on the title-page is simply the old truth that has been believed in hitherto. In plain English, The Twilight of the Idols means that the old truth is on its last legs.” Certain it is that, for a rapid survey of the whole of Nietzsche’s doctrine, no book, save perhaps the section entitled “Of Old and New Tables” in Thus Spake Zarathustra, could be of more real value than The Twilight of the Idols. Here Nietzsche is quite at his best. He is ripe for the marvellous feat of the transvaluation of all values. Nowhere is his language – that marvellous weapon which in his hand became at once so supple and so murderous – more forcible and more condensed. Nowhere are his thoughts more profound. But all this does not by any means imply that this book is the easiest of Nietzsche’s works. On the contrary, I very much fear that unless the reader is well prepared, not only in Nietzscheism, but also in the habit of grappling with uncommon and elusive problems, a good deal of the contents of this work will tend rather to confuse than to enlighten him in regard to what Nietzsche actually wishes to make clear in these pages. (Excerpt from A. Ludovici’s Preface)
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Episodes
00 – Translator’s Preface, Narrator’s Note, Author’s Preface
January 02, 2024 00:00 - 11 minutes - 4.77 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
01 – Maxims and Missiles
January 01, 2024 00:00 - 12 minutes - 4.77 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
02 – The Problem of Socrates
December 31, 2023 00:00 - 17 minutes - 7.63 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
03 – Reason in Philosophy
December 30, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes - 6.68 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
04 – How the True World Ultimately Became a Fable
December 29, 2023 00:00 - 4 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
05 – Morality as the Enemy of Nature
December 28, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutes - 6.68 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
06 – The Four Great Errors
December 27, 2023 00:00 - 27 minutes - 12.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
07 – The Improvers of Mankind
December 26, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutes - 5.72 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
08 – Things the Germans Lack
December 25, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutes - 8.58 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
09 – Skirmishes in a War with the Age, pt. 1
December 24, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes - 16.2 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
10 – Skirmishes in a War with the Age, pt. 2
December 23, 2023 00:00 - 32 minutes - 14.3 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
11 – Skirmishes in a War with the Age, pt. 3
December 22, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutes - 12.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
12 – Skirmishes in a War with the Age, pt. 4
December 21, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutes - 11.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
13 – Things I owe to the Ancients
December 20, 2023 00:00 - 21 minutes - 9.54 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com