The Antichrist

"The Antichrist" begins with the writer's egotistical pledge to become immortal, & then he pretty much backs his shit up. Masterfully. He identifies his readership & reading Nietzsche is like joining a secret club that's more than a century old. Indeed, one feels like a pariah when trying to discern......more

Dios está muerto!El hombre es Dios!...o tal vez,no? Este libro se ha convertido en una de mis obras favoritas! “La vida es un instinto de desarrollo, de supervivencia, de acumulación de fuerzas, de poder”. “Comprender los límites de la razón, esto es precisamente la filosofía...” “La compasión es la pr......more

Nietzsche comes down so hard on christianity that he makes Christopher Hitchens look positively Presbyterian. "This book belongs to the very few." ~FN In his preface, Nietzsche anticipates a probable backlash to what he is about to publish. He states that only a person of sound intellect, one who is a......more

As an atheist, I wish I had liked this better but it's too full of crazy name-calling and smug self congratulating and angry bellowing, leaving about only 1/3 of the book to explain his ideas. Which I can't say are super crazy, I mean, when it boils down to it, he says Catholicism is the anti-christ......more

Um, WOW! The anti-christ is really anti-Christianity. Nietzsche talks about how Christianity is the religion of the weak, the low, the botched and the "outcast among men". He asks the reader, "why labour together, trust one another, or concern one's self about the common welfare, when every man, beca......more