The Anti-Christ

The Christian concept of a god-the god as the patron of the sick the god as a spinner of cobwebs the god as a spirit-is one of the most corrupt concepts that has ever been set up in the world... In him nothingness is deified and the will to nothingness is made holySee Sharp Press; Tuscon AZ -from The Anti-Christ Hes one of the most debated thinkers of the 19th century: Nietzsche and his works have been by turns vilified lauded and subjected to numerous contradictory interpretations and yet he remains a figure of profound import and his works a necessary component of a well-rounded education. The Anti-Christ first published in German in 1895 is absolutely vital to any meaningful understanding of Nietzsche the man and Nietzsche the philosopher. An insightful and entertaining indictment of Christianity it has enraged and inspired generations of readers and this 1920 translation by H. L. Mencken considered the best available is almost as controversial as the work itself highlighting the darkest side of Menckens cynicism. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Nietzsches The Use and Abuse of History. German psychologist and philosopher FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE (1844-1900) was appointed special professor of classical philology at the University of Basel at the precocious age of 24 but soon found himself dissatisfied with academic life and created an alternative intellectual society for himself among friends including composer Richard Wagner historian Jakob Burckhardt and theologian Franz Overbeck. Among his philosophical works are Thus Spoke Zarathustra Beyond Good and Evil and Ecce Homo.