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The Antichrist: A New Translation
Paperback
PhilosophyAtheism & Agnosticism
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 15 2024
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity... I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.
Written in a white-hot fury during autumn 1888, just months before his mental collapse, The Antichrist represents Friedrich Nietzsche at his most uncompromising and incendiary. This isn't philosophical critique conducted with academic detachment-it's a declaration of war against Christianity and the entire value system it has imposed on Western civilization for two millennia.
Nietzsche exposes Christianity as a religion that glorifies weakness, celebrates suffering, and systematically poisons human vitality. Its virtues-humility, meekness, self-denial, compassion for the weak-are revealed as sophisticated weapons deployed by the powerless against the strong, transforming natural human excellence into sin and life-denial into sanctity. The religion of love, Nietzche argues, is actually driven by resentment, revenge, and hatred of life itself.
Yet this isn't mere atheistic polemic. Nietzsche distinguishes the historical Jesus-whom he portrays as a kind of holy fool living beyond good and evil-from the Christianity created by Paul and the Church, which perverted Jesus's teaching into a world-negating dogma. His target is not religious belief per se but the entire moral framework Christianity has created, one that continues shaping secular Western culture long after God is dead.
Fierce, brilliant, and deliberately offensive, The Antichrist demands that we question everything we've inherited about morality, that we recognize how Christian values have shaped even our secular ethics, and that we dare to create new values affirming life rather than denying it.
A philosophical bomb that still explodes on contact-essential, dangerous, unforgettable.
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