twilight of the idols. The antichrist

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THE-CASE-OF-WAGNER
N1ETZSCHE-CONTRAWAGNER
THE-TWILIGHTOF-THE-IDOLS
THE-ANTICHRIST
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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THE WORKS OF
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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VOL. A GENEALOGY OF MORALS
I.
POEMS
Translated by WILLIAM A. HAUSSMANN and JOHN GRAY
[Ready March 20, 1899.
VOL. THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA
II.
A BOOK FOR ALL AND NONE
Translated by ALEXANDER TlLLE.
[Ready April24, 1899.
VOL. THE CASE OF WAGNER
ill.
NIETZSCHE CONTRA WAGNER
THE TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS
THE ANTICHRIST
Translated by THOMAS COMMON.
[Ready May 22, 1899.
Other Volumes to follow.
LONDON
T FISHER U N W N
. I
This sole authorised edition of the Collected Works of Friedrich
Nietzsche is issued under the editorship ofALEXANDER TILLE,
Ph.D., Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. It is based on the
final German edition (Leipzig: C. G. Naumann) prepared by
Dr. Fritz Kocgcl, and is published under the supervision of the
NictzscJie-Archiv at Nauinburg. Copyright in the United States
by Macmillan and Co. All rights reserved.
THE CASE OF WAGNER
NIETZSCHE CONTRA WAGNER
THE TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS
THE ANTICHRIST
BY FRIEDR1CH TRANSLATED BY
NIETZSCHE THOMAS COMMON
LONDON
T. FISHER UNWIN
PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1899
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CONTENTS
Page
INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR vii
THE CASE OF WAGNER xxiii
Preface I
A Letter from Turin of May, 1888 5
Postscript 43
Second Postscript 51
Epilogue 56
NIETZSCHE CONTRA WAGNER 61
Preface 63
Where I admire 65
Where I make Objections 67
Wagner as a Danger 69
A
Music without a Future 71
We
Antipodes 73
Where Wagner belongs to 76
Wagner as the Apostle of Chastity 79
How I got free from Wagner 82
The Psychologist speaks 84
Epilogue 89
VI CONTENTS
Page
THE TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS 95
Preface 97
Apophthegms and Darts 99
The PiQblenLof-Socrates 107
"Reason" in Philosophy 116
How the "True World" finally became a Fable 124
Morality as Anti-naturalness 126
The four great Errors 134
The Improvers of Mankind 147
What the Germans lack 154
Roving Expeditions of an Inopportune Philosopher 164
My Indebtedness to the Ancients 222
The Hammer speaketh 233
THE ANTICHRIST 237
Preface 239
The Antichrist 241