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"Bombastic, acerbic, and coldly analytical, "The Anti-Christ" exemplifies the muscularity of thought that surrounds the Nietzsche legend." --Cletus Nelson, "Eye"
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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A work of Nietzsche's later years, "The Antichrist" was written after "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" and shortly before the mental collapse that incapacitated him for the rest of his life. The work is both an unrestrained attack on Christianity and a further exposition of Nietzsche's will-to-power philosophy so dramatically presented in "Zarathustra".
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Friedrich Nietzshe's "The Anti-Christ" is another great book by one of the most understood and overlooked writers in the history of modern political thought (due to his association with a nazi dictatorship which crudely used his ideas). This book provides an intelligent insight into why people such as me do not believe in christianity and exposes the christian vision of freedom for been exactly what it is, a fraud.
"The Anti-Christ" seeks to persuade the reader not to live and enjoy the one life he/her has, rather than to limit their enjoyment to achieve the facade of "eternal salvation". Nietzsche also attackes Christianity for weakening man by instilling him with a "slave morality" and sees the solution in the form of a "superman" (which is discussed at length in Thus Spake Zarathustra) and aristocratic rule. While i don't agree with his favourance of ariscratic rule, i think his view on Man's docile nature and on modern man's laziness is devastatingly accurate when applied to today's materialist society.
I truelly enjoyed reading this book and recommed it to anyone who like me became interested by his writings after becoming an atheist or to any open-minded christians ( there are some of you) who want to discover what atheists think. It serves as a fascinating introduction to the works of a true genius,who like Machiavelli before him, has had his name sullied by misuses of his work and the connations his name holds as a result.
"The Anti-Christ" seeks to persuade the reader not to live and enjoy the one life he/her has, rather than to limit their enjoyment to achieve the facade of "eternal salvation". Nietzsche also attackes Christianity for weakening man by instilling him with a "slave morality" and sees the solution in the form of a "superman" (which is discussed at length in Thus Spake Zarathustra) and aristocratic rule. While i don't agree with his favourance of ariscratic rule, i think his view on Man's docile nature and on modern man's laziness is devastatingly accurate when applied to today's materialist society.
I truelly enjoyed reading this book and recommed it to anyone who like me became interested by his writings after becoming an atheist or to any open-minded christians ( there are some of you) who want to discover what atheists think. It serves as a fascinating introduction to the works of a true genius,who like Machiavelli before him, has had his name sullied by misuses of his work and the connations his name holds as a result.
33 of 45 people found the following review helpful
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As to Nietzsche christianity was the cause for the decline of the classic, antique civilisation and the most considerable "promotor" for the herd instinct, the spiritual levelling, for decadence.
The Antichrist (1888, written months before he fell ill to death) contains THE MOST FURIOUS ATTACKS by Nietzsche against christianity. It is as if this criticism that we encounter in all of his writings, has been like a fester in his mind and whole spirit that bursts out here as an incredible, tremendously powerful explosion.
"I BRING YOU THE MOST TERRIBLE DENUNCIATION AGAINST THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH THAT HAS EVER BEEN CHARGED AS ANY ATTORNEY GENERAL EVER HAS DONE. I WILL WRITE DOWN THIS ETERNAL CHARGE AGAINST CHRISTIANITY EVERYWHERE WERE THERE ARE WALLS, I EVEN DISPOSE OF SPECIAL LETTERS TO EVEN MAKE THE BLIND SEE.".
The reason for Nietzsche to do/write so, is because he found christianity, with Paul and the ancient fathers of the christian church in front (NOT the person of "Jesus" as so often misinterpreted!), GUILTY for the decline of the ANTIQUITY. Christianity was the vampire of the IMPERIUM ROMANUM. As the author was a hughe admirer of antiquity, not to say that he saw it as a kind of ideal world, a greater denunciation is indeed hard to think of as to him.
AN ABSOLUTE MUST FOR EVERYONE (sic!!!). Lots of people talk about the book, but have never read it, for different reasons. Some amongst them "HATE" Nietzsche - BUT that is hardly a reason at all, others are afraid the read is too difficult for them. This book is only about 100 pages, has SOME difficult stuff to read on A FEW PAGES - but certainly NOT THE WHOLE WORK!
THIS IS ONE OF THE MASTERPIECES (everyone should have read already) OF NIETZSCHE, WHICH I WARMLY RECOMMEND from the bottom of my whole being: A REAL MUST in which you can see Nietzsche really fulminating on the very highest level (in every way and sense!) ever done. A FANTASTIC BOOK THAT YOU WILL RE-READ.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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With his diabolic polemic talent Friedrich Nietzsche fights a Homeric battle with his evil dragon, Christianity, its creed, its actions, its history and its ministers.
Christianity in general
Christianity is the great innermost corruption, the mortal blemish of mankind.
It has no contact with reality: imaginary causes (God, soul, unfree will), imaginary effects (sin, punishment, forgiveness, redemption, grace), imaginary psychology (presence of God, temptation by the devil), imaginary teleology (eternal life, Last Judgment).
It is the religion of pity, the practice of nihilism. It conserves all that is miserable and is thus a prime instrument of decadence. It despises the body, thereby reducing mankind to a kind of self-violation.
Creed
The theory that God sacrificed his son for the remission of sin is gruesome paganism: the sacrifice of the guiltless one for the sins of all the guilty.
The immaculata conceptio dirties the origin of man.
The Last Judgment and the immortality of the soul are instruments of torture, systems of cruelty. The doctrine of personal immortality places life`s centre of gravity not in life, but in the `beyond'.
The concept of sin is a self-violation of man.
Faith, priests
The Christian is a domestic sick animal. Where the will to power is lacking, there is decline.
Faith discredits reason, knowledge and inquiry, which are forbidden ways of investigation. Faith means closing one's eyes to oneself once and for all.
The priest is a holy parasite. He is a professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life. He rules through the invention of sin.
Unacceptable
Nietzsche's slogan `war not peace' and his fundamental contempt of the weak are unacceptable. So is his profound anti-democratic stance: `the order of the castes is a sanction of a natural order, a natural lawfulness. The inequality of rights is the first condition for the existence of any rights at all.'
With his anti-Kantian shout, `every man has to invent his own categorical imperative', Friedrich Nietzsche wrote one of the most violent pamphlets of all time.
A must read, critically.
Christianity in general
Christianity is the great innermost corruption, the mortal blemish of mankind.
It has no contact with reality: imaginary causes (God, soul, unfree will), imaginary effects (sin, punishment, forgiveness, redemption, grace), imaginary psychology (presence of God, temptation by the devil), imaginary teleology (eternal life, Last Judgment).
It is the religion of pity, the practice of nihilism. It conserves all that is miserable and is thus a prime instrument of decadence. It despises the body, thereby reducing mankind to a kind of self-violation.
Creed
The theory that God sacrificed his son for the remission of sin is gruesome paganism: the sacrifice of the guiltless one for the sins of all the guilty.
The immaculata conceptio dirties the origin of man.
The Last Judgment and the immortality of the soul are instruments of torture, systems of cruelty. The doctrine of personal immortality places life`s centre of gravity not in life, but in the `beyond'.
The concept of sin is a self-violation of man.
Faith, priests
The Christian is a domestic sick animal. Where the will to power is lacking, there is decline.
Faith discredits reason, knowledge and inquiry, which are forbidden ways of investigation. Faith means closing one's eyes to oneself once and for all.
The priest is a holy parasite. He is a professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life. He rules through the invention of sin.
Unacceptable
Nietzsche's slogan `war not peace' and his fundamental contempt of the weak are unacceptable. So is his profound anti-democratic stance: `the order of the castes is a sanction of a natural order, a natural lawfulness. The inequality of rights is the first condition for the existence of any rights at all.'
With his anti-Kantian shout, `every man has to invent his own categorical imperative', Friedrich Nietzsche wrote one of the most violent pamphlets of all time.
A must read, critically.
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Ok, so lets be straight folks. We know he is a showman , a rhetorical genious, a martyr to a pointless job (of finishin off christianity), a legend, an antichrist and for marys... Read more
Published on 16 July 2007 by Duncan R. Cullens
Not very well translated
Nietzsches controversial views are made succinctly in German and are normally OK when they get translated. But I found this book had been translated strangely. Read more
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energetic and powerful
This short book is perhaps the most successful refutation of Christianity. Nietzsche pulls no punches as he ruthlessly dissembles Christian doctrine and tears to shreds those who... Read more
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A wonderfully worked argument as to the redundancy of christianity and religion in general. A large number of practical examples are provided, whilst Neitzsche plays the priests... Read more
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