{"product_id":"twilight-of-the-idols-how-to-philosophize-with-a-hammer-9781523605514","title":"Twilight of the Idols: How to Philosophize with a Hammer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwilight of the Idols\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Friedrich Nietzsche  1895]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eText prepared from the original German and the translations by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer (German: G tzen-D mmerung, oder, Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophirt) is a book by Friedrich Nietzsche, written in 1888, and published in 1889.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaxims and Arrows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Problem of Socrates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Reason\" in Philosophy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow the \"True World\" Finally Became a Fable\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMorality as Anti-Nature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Four\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGreat Errors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe \"Improvers\" of Mankind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat the Germans Lack\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSkirmishes of an Untimely Man\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat I Owe to the Ancients\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Hammer Speaks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaintaining cheerfulness in the midst of a gloomy task, fraught with immeasurable responsibility, is no small feat; and yet what is needed more than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds if prankishness has no part in it. Excess strength alone is the proof of strength.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA revaluation of all values: this question mark, so black, so huge that it casts a shadow over the man who puts it down -- such a destiny of a task compels one to run into the sunlight at every opportunity to shake off a heavy, all-too-heavy seriousness. Every means is proper to do this; every \"case\" is a case of luck. Especially, war. War has always been the great wisdom of all spirits who have become too introspective, too profound; even in a wound there is the power to heal. A maxim, the origin of which I withhold from scholarly curiosity, has long been my motto: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncrescunt animi, virescit volnere virtus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"The spirits increase, vigor grows through a wound.\"]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnother mode of convalescence (in certain situations even more to my liking) is sounding out idols. There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my \"evil eye\" upon this world; that is also my \"evil ear.\" Finally to pose questions with a hammer, and sometimes to hear as a reply that famous hollow sound that can only come from bloated entrails -- what a delight for one who has ears even behind his ears, for me, an old psychologist and pied piper before whom just that which would remain silent must finally speak out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis essay -- the title betrays it -- is above all a recreation, a spot of sunshine, a leap sideways into the idleness of a psychologist. Perhaps a new war, too? And are new idols sounded out? This little essay is a great declaration of war; and regarding the sounding out of idols, this time they are not just idols of the age, but eternal idols, which are here touched with a hammer as with a tuning fork: there are no idols that are older, more assured, more puffed-up -- and none more hollow. That does not prevent them from being those in which people have the most faith; nor does one ever say \"idol,\" especially not in the most distinguished instance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurin, September 30, 1888, on the day when the first book of the Revaluation of All Values was completed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50418359664914,"sku":"9781523605514","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_082ad578-c9e4-46d2-bf45-9bf591654f62.jpg?v=1729470450","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/twilight-of-the-idols-how-to-philosophize-with-a-hammer-9781523605514","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}