{"product_id":"2940014565240","title":"THE ANTICHRIST","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                            PAGE\u003cbr\u003e    INTRODUCTION BY H. L. MENCKEN              7\u003cbr\u003e    AUTHOR'S PREFACE                          37\u003cbr\u003e    THE ANTICHRIST                            41\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSave for his raucous, rhapsodical autobiography, \"Ecce Homo,\" \"The\u003cbr\u003eAntichrist\" is the last thing that Nietzsche ever wrote, and so it may\u003cbr\u003ebe accepted as a statement of some of his most salient ideas in their\u003cbr\u003efinal form. Notes for it had been accumulating for years and it was to\u003cbr\u003ehave constituted the first volume of his long-projected _magnum opus_,\u003cbr\u003e\"The Will to Power.\" His full plan for this work, as originally drawn\u003cbr\u003eup, was as follows:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Vol.   I.  The Antichrist: an Attempt at a Criticism of Christianity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Vol.  II.  The Free Spirit: a Criticism of Philosophy as a Nihilistic\u003cbr\u003e             Movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Vol. III.  The Immoralist: a Criticism of Morality, the Most Fatal\u003cbr\u003e             Form of Ignorance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Vol.  IV.  Dionysus: the Philosophy of Eternal Recurrence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first sketches for \"The Will to Power\" were made in 1884, soon after\u003cbr\u003ethe publication of the first three parts of \"Thus Spake Zarathustra,\"\u003cbr\u003eand thereafter, for four years, Nietzsche piled up notes. They were\u003cbr\u003ewritten at all the places he visited on his endless travels in search of\u003cbr\u003ehealth--at Nice, at Venice, at Sils-Maria in the Engadine (for long his\u003cbr\u003efavourite resort), at Cannobio, at Zürich, at Genoa, at Chur, at\u003cbr\u003eLeipzig. Several times his work was interrupted by other books, first by\u003cbr\u003e\"Beyond Good and Evil,\" then by \"The Genealogy of Morals\" (written in\u003cbr\u003etwenty days), then by his Wagner pamphlets. Almost as often he changed\u003cbr\u003ehis plan. Once he decided to expand \"The Will to Power\" to ten volumes,\u003cbr\u003ewith \"An Attempt at a New Interpretation of the World\" as a general\u003cbr\u003esub-title. Again he adopted the sub-title of \"An Interpretation of All\u003cbr\u003eThat Happens.\" Finally, he hit upon \"An Attempt at a Transvaluation of\u003cbr\u003eAll Values,\" and went back to four volumes, though with a number of\u003cbr\u003echanges in their arrangement. In September, 1888, he began actual work\u003cbr\u003eupon the first volume, and before the end of the month it was completed.\u003cbr\u003eThe Summer had been one of almost hysterical creative activity. Since\u003cbr\u003ethe middle of June he had written two other small books, \"The Case of\u003cbr\u003eWagner\" and \"The Twilight of the Idols,\" and before the end of the year\u003cbr\u003ehe was destined to write \"Ecce Homo.\" Some time during December his\u003cbr\u003ehealth began to fail rapidly, and soon after the New Year he was\u003cbr\u003ehelpless. Thereafter he wrote no more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Wagner diatribe and \"The Twilight of the Idols\" were published\u003cbr\u003eimmediately, but \"The Antichrist\" did not get into type until 1895. I\u003cbr\u003esuspect that the delay was due to the influence of the philosopher's\u003cbr\u003esister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, an intelligent and ardent but by no\u003cbr\u003emeans uniformly judicious propagandist of his ideas. During his dark\u003cbr\u003edays of neglect and misunderstanding, when even family and friends kept\u003cbr\u003ealoof, Frau Förster-Nietzsche went with him farther than any other, but\u003cbr\u003ethere were bounds beyond which she, also, hesitated to go, and those\u003cbr\u003ebounds were marked by crosses. One notes, in her biography of him--a\u003cbr\u003euseful but not always accurate work--an evident desire to purge him of\u003cbr\u003ethe accusation of mocking at sacred things. He had, she says, great\u003cbr\u003eadmiration for \"the elevating effect of Christianity ... upon the weak\u003cbr\u003eand ailing,\" and \"a real liking for sincere, pious Christians,\" and \"a\u003cbr\u003etender love for the Founder of Christianity.\" All his wrath, she\u003cbr\u003econtinues, was reserved for \"St. Paul and his like,\" who perverted the\u003cbr\u003eBeatitudes, which Christ intended for the lowly only, into a universal\u003cbr\u003ereligion which made war upon aristocratic values. Here, obviously, one\u003cbr\u003eis addressed by an interpreter who cannot forget that she is the\u003cbr\u003edaughter of a Lutheran pastor and the grand-daughter of two others; a\u003cbr\u003etouch of conscience gets into her reading of \"The Antichrist.\" She even\u003cbr\u003ehints that the text may have been garbled, after the author's collapse,\u003cbr\u003eby some more sinister heretic. There is not the slightest reason to\u003cbr\u003ebelieve that any such garbling ever took place, nor is there any\u003cbr\u003eevidence that their common heritage of piety rested upon the brother as\u003cbr\u003eheavily as it rested upon the sister. On the contrary, it must be\u003cbr\u003emanifest that Nietzsche, in this book, intended to attack Christianity\u003cbr\u003eheadlong and with all arms, that for all his rapid writing he put the\u003cbr\u003eutmost care into it, and that he wanted it to be printed exactly as it\u003cbr\u003estands. The ideas in it were anything but new to him when he set them\u003cbr\u003edown.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074017706224,"sku":"2940014565240","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014565240_p0.jpg?v=1763611258","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014565240","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}